Etymograph

English

concessio

Concessio comes from Latin concessiō ‘grant, concession’, and goes back to cēdō.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcēdō1
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEconcēdō1‘to relinquish, concede, relent, subside, come to an end, terminate, give up, abandon’
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEconcessiō2‘grant, concession’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 2022concessio2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin concessio
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English concessio
  3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2022, China Miéville, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto: “This long sequence skilfully deploys the rhetorical tropes of…”.

Earlier history not traced here. See Wiktionary.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcēdōWiktionary, Latin concessio
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEconcēdōWiktionary, Latin concessio‘to relinquish, concede, relent, subside, come to an end, terminate, give up, abandon’
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEconcessiōWiktionary, English concessio‘grant, concession’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 2022concessioWiktionary, English concessio. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2022, China Miéville, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto: “This long sequence skilfully deploys the rhetorical tropes of…”

Linked words

through Latin cēdō

process, success, necessary, procedure, succeed, cease, excess, precedent, accessible, predecessor, recess, cede, cessation, accession, secession, intercession, 31 more

Today it means

noun The rhetorical device of conceding or admitting something but pardoning it.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “concessio”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin concessio. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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