Where does “concessionary” come from?
Concessionary derives from English concession combined with the suffix -ary, tracing through Latin concessio, concedo, and cedo meaning to yield or grant.
concessionary (English): one who owns a concession or a franchise;...
Definitions
- one who owns a concession or a franchise;...
Ancestry of “concessionary”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | concession | The act of conceding; An act of conceding,... |
| 2 | Middle English | concession | — |
| 3 | Middle French | concession | — |
| 4 | Latin | concessiō | permission |
| 5 | Latin | concēdō | to depart, retire or withdraw, come away, come, go away |
| 6 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 7 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 8 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 12 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 13 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 14 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 15 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 16 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |