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. [with to]

   Edward decided to cede the province.

   1. (ditransitive) Same as above. [with dative]

      After figuring out the seating arrangement and ceding him the window seat, I took my own seat by the aisle.

   • 2005, Jesse Helms, “Foreign Relations Experiences”, in Here's Where I Stand: A Memoir‎^[1], New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 227:

     In the late nineteenth century, the Chinese ceded Taiwan to the Japanese.

2. (intransitive) To give way.

• dece

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

cede

1. third-person singular present indicative of cedere

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkeː.dɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛː.d̪e]

cēde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cēdō

• Hyphenation: ce‧de

cede

1. inflection of ceder:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

cede (Cyrillic spelling цеде)

1. third-person plural present of cediti

• IPA^(key): /ˈθede/ [ˈθe.ð̞e] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈsede/ [ˈse.ð̞e] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -ede
• Syllabification: ce‧de
• Homophone: (Latin America) sede

cede

1. inflection of ceder:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative