concessio

See also: concessió

English

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin concessiō.

Noun

Examples
He may be a scoundrel, but he's our scoundrel.

concessio (uncountable)

1. (rhetoric) The rhetorical device of conceding or admitting something but pardoning it.

   Synonym: concession

   • 2022, China Miéville, chapter 3, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:

     This long sequence skilfully deploys the rhetorical tropes of procatalepsis and concessio, pre-emption and concession: that is, they concede the accuracy of certain classic attacks on communism, but in ways that redound on their opponents.

Latin

Etymology

From concēdō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /konˈkes.si.oː/, [kɔŋˈkɛs̠ːioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /konˈt͡ʃes.si.o/, [kon̠ʲˈt͡ʃɛsːio]

Noun

concessiō f (genitive concessiōnis); third declension

1. permission

   Synonyms: permissiō, concessus, venia

2. grant, concession

   Synonym: concessus

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	concessiō	concessiōnēs
Genitive	concessiōnis	concessiōnum
Dative	concessiōnī	concessiōnibus
Accusative	concessiōnem	concessiōnēs
Ablative	concessiōne	concessiōnibus
Vocative	concessiō	concessiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: concessió
• English: concession
• French: concession
• Galician: concesión
• Italian: concessione
• Portuguese: concessão
• Romanian: concesie, concesiune
• Russian: конце́ссия (koncéssija)
• Spanish: concesión

References

• “concessio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “concessio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• concessio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.