concessão

Forms

concessão f (plural concessões)^[1] The 15th-century form is conçessom;^[2][3] Bluteau (1712) writes concessaõ.^[2][3]

Etymology

It is borrowed from Latin concessiō (“a yielding, granting”), recorded as conçessom in the 15th century.^[2][4][1][5] Nascentes calls it semi-learned.^[6] The Latin noun is formed from concēdō (“to give way, grant”) with the suffix -tiō.^[7][1]

The Latin word was taken in the same way into Galician concesión, Spanish concesión, Catalan concessió, French concession, Italian concessione and Romanian concesie.^[1]

Earliest recorded meaning

Houaiss dates the first record, conçessom, to the 15th century from Cunha's index of medieval Portuguese;^[2][4] Cunha's dictionary gives the 16th century, with the sense “the act of granting”.^[2][4]

Semantic evolution

Bluteau (1712) glosses it “permission” and “privilege”, with a quotation from the Monarchia Lusitana.^[3] Morais (1789) adds “donation” and the figure of rhetoric in which a point is granted to the opponent on terms that make it unacceptable;^[8][9] Vieira (1871–1874) has the same senses, with grace and favour.^[8][9] In modern law and economics it is the right that the state grants to a person or company to build, run a public service or exploit resources such as mines for a fixed time, and the privilege so granted.^[2][10][5] Grammar uses it for a clause that admits a fact contrary to the main one without preventing it, the clause of the conjunction embora.^[2]

Timeline

• 15th century – first record, conçessom.^[2]
• 16th century – Cunha's first record of concessão.^[4]
• 1712 – Bluteau heads it concessaõ “permission, privilege”.^[3]
• 1789 – Morais records the rhetorical sense.^[8]
• 1871–1874 – Vieira gives the Latin concessione as its source.^[9]

Meanings

Noun

1. The act of granting; permission, consent: a concessão de uma licença.^[2][10][11]
2. A giving way on one's opinion or right in favour of another; a compromise: Os dois lados fizeram concessões.^[2][10]
3. (law, economics) A concession, franchise: the right granted by the state to a person or company to carry out a work, run a public service or exploit resources for a fixed time; the land or privilege so granted.^[2][5][1]
4. A grant, award; a favour bestowed.^[11][1]
5. (rhetoric) The figure in which the speaker grants the opponent a point open to dispute.^[2][8]
6. (grammar) A fact stated as contrary to the main action but unable to prevent it, as in a concessive clause.^[2][5]

Word family

• concessionário

Related words

• conceder
• concessivo
• cessão
• Latin concessiō
• Spanish concesión

References

1. ^ a b c d e f g h Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Houaiss, Antônio; Villar, Mauro de Salles (2001), Dicionário Houaiss da língua portuguesa, Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva, p. s.v. concessão
3. ^ a b c d Bluteau, Raphael (1712–1728), Vocabulario portuguez e latino, 8 vols. + 2 supplement vols., Coimbra / Lisboa (CLP transcription, Universidade de Aveiro), p. s.v. concessaõ
4. ^ a b c d Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2010), Dicionário etimológico da língua portuguesa, 4th ed., Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon, p. s.v. conceder
5. ^ a b c d Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa, revised online edition (2023–) of the Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa Contemporânea (2001), https://dicionario.acad-ciencias.pt, p. s.v. concessão
6. ^ Nascentes, Antenor (1966), Dicionário etimológico resumido, Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Nacional do Livro, p. s.v. concessão
7. ^ Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. s.v. concessiō
8. ^ a b c d Silva, António de Morais (1789), Diccionario da lingua portugueza composto pelo padre D. Rafael Bluteau, reformado, e accrescentado, 2 vols., Lisboa: Simão Thaddeo Ferreira, p. 1, 302
9. ^ a b c Vieira, Frei Domingos (1871–1874), Grande Diccionario Portuguez ou Thesouro da lingua portugueza, 5 vols., Porto: Ernesto Chardron e Bartholomeu H. de Moraes, p. 2, 377
10. ^ a b c Ferreira, Aurélio Buarque de Holanda, Novo dicionário Aurélio da língua portuguesa, digital edition, p. s.v. concessão
11. ^ a b Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa, Lisboa: Priberam Informática, https://dicionario.priberam.org, p. s.v. concessão