secedo

From sē- (“apart”) +‎ cēdō (“go”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /seːˈkeː.doː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /seˈt͡ʃe.do/,

sēcēdō (present infinitive sēcēdere, perfect active sēcessī, supine sēcessum); third conjugation

1. to withdraw, to secede, to separate oneself, to shut oneself off, to seek distance
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.375–376:

     omnia fīnierat: tenuēs sēcessit in aurās.
     mānsit odor: possēs scīre fuisse deam.

     was all finished: She withdrew into gentle breezes.
     Her fragrance remained: You might know a goddess had been .
     (Ovid concludes his poetic dialogue with Flora (mythology).)

   • Dig. XVII.I.16 Ulpianus libro trigensimo primo ad edictum

     Si quis mihi mandaverit in meo aliquid facere et fecero, quaesitum est, an sit mandati actio. Et ait Celsus libro septimo digestorum hoc respondisse se, cum Aurelius Quietus hospiti suo medico mandasse diceretur, ut in hortis eius quos Ravennae habebat, in quos omnibus annis secedere solebat, sphaeristerium et hypocausta et quaedam ipsius valetudini apta sua inpensa faceret: deducto igitur, quanto sua aedificia pretiosiora fecisset, quod amplius impendisset posse eum mandati iudicio persequi.

     If someone mandates me to do something in my own business and I have done it, it is to be asked if a mandate claim arises. And Celsus says in the seventh book of his digests that it is to answer that when Aurelius Quietus tells his guest who is a physician and has gardens in Ravenna where he withdraws all years to build a sphaeristerium and hypocausts and certain other things which further his fitness by his own outlay this claim can be pursued offsetting the sum by which it has added to the value of the buildings, that is the outlay that goes beyond this.

2. (By extension) to retire
   • 61 CE – c. 112 CE, Pliny the Younger, Epistles 1.9:

     Haec quo die feceris, necessaria, eadem, si cotidie fecisse te reputes, inania videntur, multo magis cum secesseris.

     All of these seem necessary on the day in which you were doing them. However, if you reflect upon what you have accomplished, they appear inane—much more so when you retire.

3. (By extension) to dissent
   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 117.4:

     antequam ego incipio secedere et in alia parte considere.

     Before I begin to dissent and settle into another creed

• secessus
• sēcessiō

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