cesser

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English

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Etymology

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From cess +‎ -er.

Noun

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cesser (plural cessers)

  1. (law) termination or cessation.
  2. (law) A neglect of a tenant to perform services, or make payment, for two years.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cesser”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French cesser, from Old French cesser, borrowed from Latin cessāre.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /sɛ.se/ ~ /se.se/
  • Audio:(file)

Verb

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cesser

  1. to cease; to stop
    • 1992, Amélie Nothomb, Hygiène de l’assassin [The Assassin’s Hygiene] (fiction):
      Cessez de blasphémer, vile créature ! Apprenez, ignorante, que saint Prétextat était archevêque de Rouen au VIe siècle, et grand ami de Grégoire de Tours, qui était un homme très bien, dont vous n’avez naturellement jamais entendu parler.
      Stop blaspheming, you vile creature! You’d better learn, ignorant woman, that Saint Praetextatus was Archbishop of Rouen in the 6th century, and a friend of Gregory of Tours, who was a very good man, which you, unsurprisingly, never heard of.
  2. to break up (e.g. a relationship)

Usage notes

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  • In formal written French, cesser can be negated solely by the particle ne, without the need for pas.

Conjugation

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Further reading

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Latin

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Verb

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cesser

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of cessō

Middle French

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Verb

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cesser

  1. to cease; to stop

Conjugation

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  • Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

References

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  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (cesser, supplement)

Old French

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Verb

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cesser

  1. to cease; to stop

Conjugation

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This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ss, *-sss, *-sst are modified to s, s, st. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

References

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  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (cesser, supplement)