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
, .
I have to concede that you are right.
.
The government conceded more rights to the country people.
.
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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