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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Verb
[edit]cede (third-person singular simple present cedes, present participle ceding, simple past and past participle ceded)
- (transitive) To give up; yield to another. [with to]
- Edward decided to cede the province.
- (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[1], New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 227:
- In the late nineteenth century, the Chinese ceded Taiwan to the Japanese.
- (intransitive) To give way.
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[edit]give up
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[edit]Italian
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[edit]cede
Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkeː.de/, [ˈkeːd̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.de/, [ˈt͡ʃɛːd̪e]
Verb
[edit]cēde
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Hyphenation: ce‧de
Verb
[edit]cede
- inflection of ceder:
Serbo-Croatian
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[edit]cede (Cyrillic spelling цеде)
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈθede/ [ˈθe.ð̞e]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈsede/ [ˈse.ð̞e]
- Rhymes: -ede
- Syllabification: ce‧de
- Homophone: (Latin America) sede
Verb
[edit]cede
- inflection of ceder:
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