concessio
See also: concessió
English
Etymology
Borrowing from Latin concessiō.
Noun
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concessio (uncountable)
- (rhetoric) The rhetorical device of conceding or admitting something but pardoning it.
- Synonym: concession
- 2022, China Miéville, chapter 3, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, OCLC 1331706453:
- This long sequence skilfully deploys the rhetorical tropes of procatalepsis and concessio, pre-emption and concession: that is, they concede the accuracy of certain classic attacks on communism, but in ways that redound on their opponents.
Latin
Etymology
From concēdō + -tiō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /konˈkes.si.oː/, [kɔŋˈkɛs̠ːioː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /konˈt͡ʃes.si.o/, [kon̠ʲˈt͡ʃɛsːio]
Noun
concessiō f (genitive concessiōnis); third declension
- permission
- Synonyms: permissiō, concessus, venia
- grant, concession
- Synonym: concessus
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
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| Nominative | concessiō | concessiōnēs |
| Genitive | concessiōnis | concessiōnum |
| Dative | concessiōnī | concessiōnibus |
| Accusative | concessiōnem | concessiōnēs |
| Ablative | concessiōne | concessiōnibus |
| Vocative | concessiō | concessiōnēs |
Descendants
- Catalan: concessió
- English: concession
- French: concession
- Galician: concesión
- Italian: concessione
- Portuguese: concessão
- Romanian: concesie, concesiune
- Russian: конце́ссия (koncéssija)
- Spanish: concesión
References
- “concessio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “concessio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- concessio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette