recedo Latin · revision 18126

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *ḱiesdʰ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [rɛˈkeː.doː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [reˈt͡ʃɛː.do]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''recēdō''' (present infinitive recēdere, perfect active recessī, supine recessum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Plautus has the short form ''recesset'' for ''recessisset''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|re-|cēdō|t1=back|t2=to go, withdraw]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan derives [[m|la|cēdō]] from [[itc-pro|*kesd-e/o-|t=to go away, avoid]], and, following Lubotsky, from [[ine-pro|*ḱiesdʰ-|t=to drive away; go away]], cognate with [[sa|सेधति|tr=sédhati|t=drives away]]; he rejects the older explanation from ⟨*ke⟩ “here” and the root of “to sit”, and takes “to give way” to be the first meaning.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has ''pōne nōs recēde'', “step back behind us”, and ''ego recesserō'', “I shall draw back”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Recēdere'' is “to draw back, withdraw” from a place or a person, and of things “to move back, recede” (Ennius: ''sōl albus recessit in īnfera noctis'', “the white sun withdrew into the depths of night”, Virgil: ''flammaeque recēdunt'', “the flames give way”).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of places it is “to stretch back” and of heavenly bodies “to dwindle”; of joined things “to come away”.^(OLD 2012) Of feelings and conditions it is “to pass away, vanish” (Cato: ''labor ille ā vōbīs cito recēdet'', “that toil will soon leave you”), and of property “to pass out of one's hands”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ Of persons it is to withdraw from an occupation, attitude or agreement, from someone's company, or from a subject in speaking, and to depart from what is usual or right.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Church Latin glosses it “to fall away, stray, depart, forsake”.^(Stelten 1995) English [[m|en|recede]] comes from it, partly through Old French, in the early 15th century.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: ''pōne nōs recēde''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius: ''sōl albus recessit''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of the planets moving away.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * early 15th century – English [[m|en|recede]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To draw back, [[m|en|withdraw]], retire.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To move back, [[m|en|recede]] (of things);^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) to stretch back (of places).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To dwindle (of heavenly bodies);^(OLD 2012) to come away, become detached.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To pass away, [[m|en|vanish]] (of feelings or conditions); to pass out of one's hands.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To withdraw (from an occupation, agreement or company), give up.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To digress (from a topic).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To depart (from what is usual or right), deviate.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[recessim]]

+ * [[recessiō]]

+ * [[recessus]]

+ * [[recessīvus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cēdō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}