cede

See also: cedé, cedě, cedê, cédé, cède, and cʼedeʼ

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”). Cognate with Tocharian B kätk- (“to cross, pass”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siːd/

• Audio (US):

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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. [with to]

   Edward decided to cede the province.

   1. (ditransitive) Same as above. [with dative]

      After figuring out the seating arrangement and ceding him the window seat, I took my own seat by the aisle.

   • 2005, Jesse Helms, “Foreign Relations Experiences”, in Here's Where I Stand: A Memoir‎, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 227:

     In the late nineteenth century, the Chinese ceded Taiwan to the Japanese.

2. (intransitive) To give way.

Derived terms

• cede the field
• retrocede
• unceded

Related terms

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

Translations

give up

Albanian: dorëzohem (sq) Armenian: զիջել (hy) (ziǰel) Belarusian: уступа́ць impf (ustupácʹ), уступі́ць pf (ustupícʹ) Bulgarian: отстъ́пвам (bg) impf (otstǎ́pvam), отстъ́пя pf (otstǎ́pja), отка́звам се (bg) impf (otkázvam se), отка́жа се (bg) pf (otkáža se) Chinese: Mandarin: 放弃 (zh) (fàngqì) Crimean Tatar: please add this translation if you can Czech: postupovat (cs) impf, postoupit (cs) pf Dutch: aftreden (nl), uit de weg gaan, opgeven (nl) Esperanto: cedi Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: luovuttaa (fi) French: céder (fr) Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: abtreten (de), zedieren (de) Hungarian: please add this translation if you can Ido: cedar (io) Italian: cedere (it) Japanese: 譲渡する (ja) (じょうとする, jōto suru) Korean: 양도하다 (ko) (yangdohada) Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: о́тстапи pf (ótstapi), отста́пува impf (otstápuva), се о́ткаже pf (se ótkaže), се отка́жува impf (se otkážuva) Maori: tuku Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Polish: cedować (pl) impf, scedować pf Portuguese: ceder (pt) Romanian: ceda (ro) Russian: уступа́ть (ru) impf (ustupátʹ), уступи́ть (ru) pf (ustupítʹ), отка́зываться (ru) impf (otkázyvatʹsja), отказа́ться (ru) pf (otkazátʹsja) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: оду̀стати pf, у̀стукнути pf Roman: odùstati (sh) pf, ùstuknuti (sh) pf Slovak: postúpiť pf Spanish: ceder (es) Turkish: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: уступа́ти impf (ustupáty), уступи́ти pf (ustupýty)

to yield to pressure, to collapse or fail under a load

Maori: tautuku

Anagrams

• dece

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛ.de/
• Rhymes: -ɛde
• Hyphenation: cè‧de

Verb

cede

1. third-person singular present indicative of cedere

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkeː.dɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛː.de]

Verb

cēde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cēdō

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ce‧de

Verb

cede

1. inflection of ceder:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

cede (Cyrillic spelling цеде)

1. third-person plural present of cediti

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθede/ [ˈθe.ð̞e] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈsede/ [ˈse.ð̞e] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -ede
• Syllabification: ce‧de
• Homophone: (Latin America) sede

Verb

cede

1. inflection of ceder:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative