English
concession
Concession comes from Latin concessiō ‘a grant, permission, conceding’, and goes back to cēdō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcēdō1
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEconcēdō2‘to relinquish, concede, relent, subside, come to an end, terminate, give up, abandon’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEconcessiō2‘a grant, permission, conceding’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600concession2
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500concession2
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1472concession2
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
- 1 Wiktionary, Latin concedo
- 2 Wiktionary, English concession
- Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: c. 1472, Rolls of Parliament, Edward IV: “Any parsone, prest or clerk, havyng any benefice... by…”.
Earlier history not traced here. See Wiktionary.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcēdōWiktionary, Latin concedo
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEconcēdōWiktionary, English concession‘to relinquish, concede, relent, subside, come to an end, terminate, give up, abandon’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEconcessiōWiktionary, English concession‘a grant, permission, conceding’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600concessionWiktionary, English concession
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500concessionWiktionary, English concession
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1472concessionWiktionary, English concession. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: c. 1472, Rolls of Parliament, Edward IV: “Any parsone, prest or clerk, havyng any benefice... by…”
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 act of conceding.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “concession”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin concedo. 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.
Etymograph / Latin cēdō / concession