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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
- surrendering, giving up
- Synonyms: dēcessiō, recessiō, sēcessiō, permissiō
- Antonyms: prōgressus, prōgressiō, prōcessiō, prōcessus
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
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