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Translation

to concede

Word origin

From Latin concedere, con- plus cedere ('to go, to withdraw, to yield'). The English concede, concession, cede and recede are all the same Latin verb with different prefixes.

Origin
Latin
Root
concedere
English cognates
concede, concession, cede

Examples

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I have to concede that you are right.

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The government conceded more rights to the country people.

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He never concedes even a single point.

This is the awkward case in the false-seam family, and it deserves the extra sentence. Cedi is a real Esperanto verb, at rank 1,253, meaning to yield or give way. So a learner who splits into kon- plus has, unusually, found a genuine word on the right-hand side. It is still not a build. Esperanto has no prefix kon- - the prefix meaning together is -, with a u, and it never assimilates to kon- the way Latin's com- did. is one root, borrowed as a unit, and the fact that Latin assembled it from con- and e is history rather than grammar. Same class as inspiri and : the pieces are real in Latin, invisible in Esperanto.

The near-miss is what makes it teachable. Because exists, the split does not just fail, it fails in a way that changes the meaning. - would have to mean something like to yield together, which is not what conceding is. Conceding is asymmetric: you give ground to somebody who was pressing for it.

Against the neighbours, which are genuinely close.Konsenti is to agree, and it is neutral - you and I simply want the same thing. Agnoski is to acknowledge a fact. Akcepti is to accept what is offered. carries the reluctance that none of the others do: you admit the point, or grant the demand, and you would rather not have. That is exactly the English word's flavour too, so the mapping is unusually clean. Koncedo is a concession in both senses - the point given up in an argument, and the commercial concession granted by a state. Nekoncedebla is a useful adjective in a negotiation.

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This word is part of lesson 57.