cede
See also: cedé, cède, cedê, and cédé
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French ceder, from Old French ceder, from Latin cēdō (“to yield”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱyesdʰ- (“to drive away; to go away”). Cognate with Tocharian B kätk- (“to cross, pass”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /siːd/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -iːd
- Homophones: sede, seed
Verb
cede (third-person singular simple present cedes, present participle ceding, simple past and past participle ceded)
- (transitive) To give up; yield to another.
- Edward decided to cede the province.
- 2005, Helms, Jesse, “Foreign Relations Experiences”, in Here's Where I Stand: A Memoir, New York: Random House, →ISBN, LCCN 2005042795, OCLC 835465798, page 227:
- In the late nineteenth century, the Chinese ceded Taiwan to the Japanese.
- (intransitive) To give way.
Conjugation
Conjugation of cede
infinitive | (to) cede | ||
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present tense | past tense | ||
1st-person singular | cede | ceded | |
2nd-person singular | |||
3rd-person singular | cedes | ||
plural | cede | ||
subjunctive | cede | ceded | |
imperative | cede | — | |
participles | ceding | ceded |
Derived terms
- cede the field
Related terms
- accede
- antecedent
- concede
- excede
- exceed
- intercede
- precede
- proceed
- recede
- secede
- succeed
- supercede, supersede
Translations
give up
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Anagrams
- dece
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛ.de/
- Rhymes: -ɛde
- Hyphenation: cè‧de
Verb
cede
- third-person singular present indicative of cedere
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkeː.de/, [ˈkeːd̪ɛ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.de/, [ˈt͡ʃɛːd̪e]
Verb
cēde
- second-person singular present active imperative of cēdō
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ce‧de
Verb
cede
- inflection of ceder:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Serbo-Croatian
Verb
cede (Cyrillic spelling цеде)
- third-person plural present of cediti
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈθede/ [ˈθe.ð̞e]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈsede/ [ˈse.ð̞e]
- Rhymes: -ede
- Syllabification: ce‧de
- Homophone: (Latin America) sede
Verb
cede
- inflection of ceder:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative