cede

Borrowed from Middle French ceder, from Old French ceder, from Latin cēdō (“to yield”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱyesdʰ- (“to drive away; to go away”). Cognate with Tocharian B kätk- (“to cross, pass”).

• IPA^(key): /siːd/

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• Rhymes: -iːd
• Homophones: sede, seed

cede (third-person singular simple present cedes, present participle ceding, simple past and past participle ceded)

1. (transitive) To give up; yield to another.

   Edward decided to cede the province.

2. (intransitive) To give way.

• cede the field

• dece

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• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛ.de/
• Rhymes: -ɛde
• Hyphenation: cè‧de

cede

1. third-person singular present indicative of cedere

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkeː.de/, [ˈkeːd̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.de/, [ˈt͡ʃɛːd̪e]

(deprecated template usage) cēde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cēdō

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• Hyphenation: ce‧de

cede

1. Template:pt-verb-form-of

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cede (Cyrillic spelling цеде)

1. third-person plural present of cediti

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• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈθede/ [ˈθe.ð̞e]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈsede/ [ˈse.ð̞e]
• Homophone: sede (Latin America)

cede

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of ceder.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of ceder.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of ceder.