cessio

See also: cessió

Latin

Etymology

From perfect passive participle cessus (“surrendered”), from the verb cēdō (“to surrender”), + noun of action suffix -io.

Noun

cessiō f (genitive cessiōnis); third declension

1. surrendering, giving up

   Synonyms: dēcessiō, recessiō, sēcessiō, permissiō

   Antonyms: prōgressus, prōgressiō, prōcessiō, prōcessus

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cessiō	cessiōnēs
Genitive	cessiōnis	cessiōnum
Dative	cessiōnī	cessiōnibus
Accusative	cessiōnem	cessiōnēs
Ablative	cessiōne	cessiōnibus
Vocative	cessiō	cessiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: cessió
• French: cession
• Galician: cesión
• Italian: cessione
• Piedmontese: cession
• Portuguese: cessão
• Spanish: cesión

References

• “cessio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cessio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cessio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cessio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “cessio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin