Where does “cede” come from?
Cede comes from Middle French ceder, from Old French ceder, from Latin cedo, ultimately from Proto-Italic ke.
cede (English): To give up; yield to another; To give way
Definitions
- To give up; yield to another; To give way
Ancestry of “cede”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Middle French | ceder | — |
| 2 | Old French | ceder | to concede |
| 3 | Latin | cēdō | to go, move, proceed, go along, move along |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | kedō | give here! |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | ke | here |
| 6 | Indo-European | *ḱe | — |
Words derived from “cede”