Etymograph

English

procedure

Procedure is borrowed from French procédure, via Old French, from Latin prōcēdō ‘to go forward, proceed’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEprōcēdō1as procedere‘to go forward, proceed’
  2. Frenchc. 1600–presentprocédure1
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1627procedure1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English procedure
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1627, (please specify the page, or |century=I to X): “There is not any known Substance, but Earth, and…”.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEprōcēdōWiktionary, English procedureas procedere‘to go forward, proceed’
  2. Frenchc. 1600–presentprocédureWiktionary, English procedure
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1627procedureWiktionary, English procedure. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1627, (please specify the page, or |century=I to X): “There is not any known Substance, but Earth, and…”

Linked words

through Proto-Italic *kezdō

excessive, successor, succession, successive, inaccessible, recessive, precession, 10 more

through Latin cēdō ‘to go, move, proceed, go along, move along’

success, necessary, accessible, excess, succeed, cease, recession, concession, predecessor, accession, precedent, recess, concede, secession, cessation, intercession, cede, 29 more

through Latin procedo ‘to go forward, proceed’

procession, 3 more

Today it means

noun A particular method for performing a task.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “procedure”. 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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