cede

See also: cedé, cède, cedê, and cédé

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French ceder, from Old French ceder, from Latin cēdō (“to yield”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱyesdʰ- (“to drive away; to go away”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siːd/

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• Rhymes: -iːd
• Homophones: sede, seed

Verb

cede (third-person singular simple present cedes, present participle ceding, simple past and past participle ceded)

1. (transitive) To give up; yield to another.

   Edward decided to cede the province.

2. (intransitive) To give way.

Derived terms

• cede the field

Related terms

• accede
• antecedent
• concede
• excede
• exceed
• intercede
• precede
• proceed
• recede
• secede
• succeed
• supercede, supersede

Translations

give up

• Bulgarian: отстъпвам (bg) (otstǎpvam), отказвам се (otkazvam se)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 放弃 (zh)

• Dutch: aftreden (nl), uit de weg gaan, opgeven (nl)
• Esperanto: cedi
• Finnish: luovuttaa (fi)
• French: céder (fr)
• German: abtreten (de), zedieren (de)

• Ido: cedar (io)
• Maori: tuku
• Portuguese: ceder (pt)
• Serbo-Croatian: odustati (sh), ustuknuti (sh)
• Spanish: ceder (es)

Anagrams

• dece

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛde

Verb

cede

1. third-person singular present indicative of cedere

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Latin

Verb

cēde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cēdō

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ce‧de

Verb

cede

1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of ceder
2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of ceder

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Serbo-Croatian

Verb

cede (Cyrillic spelling цеде)

1. third-person plural present of cediti

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /ˈθede/, [ˈθeðe]
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /ˈsede/, [ˈseðe]
• Homophone: sede (Latin America)

Verb

cede

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of ceder.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of ceder.