concedere Italian · revision 39160

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=first half of the 13th century, Ranieri (Viterbo)|origins=la cēdō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /konˈt͡ʃɛ.de.re/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''concedere''' (first-person singular present concèdo, first-person singular past historic concèssi or concedétti or (traditional) concedètti or concedéi, past participle concèsso, auxiliary avére)^(Wiktionary)

+ The past participle was long ''conceduto'';^(DELI 1999) ''concesso'' was considered poetic until the 19th century.^(DELI 1999)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|la|concēdō|t=to withdraw, give way; to grant, admit]], a compound of [[m|la|con-]] and [[m|la|cēdō|t=to go away, yield]].^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)^(GRADIT 2003)^(DEI|1043) The Latin verb already had the senses “to grant” and “to admit”.^(Nocentini 2010)^(Wikizionario) Its past participle [[m|la|concessus]] and the derivatives [[m|la|concessiō]] and Late Latin [[m|la-lat|concessīvus]] gave [[concesso]], [[concessione]] and [[concessivo]].^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)

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+ The verb exists only as a learned word in the Romance languages: Engadine [[m|rm|conceder]], [[fr|concéder]] (from 1365, Oresme), [[es|conceder]] (about 1335) and [[pt|conceder]].^(LEI|16, 883) A variant with a change of conjugation, [[pro|concedir]], [[ca|concedir]], appears also in a few Old Aquilan forms.^(LEI|16, 883) The Latin sense “to pass, elapse” survives only in Italian.^(LEI|16, 883)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLIO's first record is a Viterbese vernacular text of Ranieri, of the first half of the 13th century;^(TLIO)^(DELI 1999) DELI dates the sense “to give, grant, permit” to Rainerio da Perugia in the 13th century.^(TLIO)^(DELI 1999) The Zingarelli has about 1261.^(Zingarelli 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Old Italian used ''concedere'' for assigning property, a right or an office, for granting help, pardon or freedom from a position of power, for giving oneself into someone's power, and for permitting something to happen; of time it meant “to pass”.^(TLIO) The sense “to admit as true” is recorded before 1332, in Alberto della Piagentina, and is shared by French and Catalan.^(DELI 1999)^(LEI|16, 883) Dante writes in the ''Vita Nuova'' that greater licence of speech is granted (''conceduta'') to poets than to prose writers.^(GDLI)

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+ The participle ''concesso'' remained a poetic form for a long time and replaced ''conceduto'' in prose only in the 19th century.^(DELI 1999) In literary Italian the intransitive verb meant “to yield”, as in Leopardi's ''se non concedi al fato'', “if you do not yield to fate”.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Treccani 2011) The reflexive ''concedersi'' means to allow oneself something, and in literary use, of a woman, to consent to sexual relations.^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * First half of the 13th century – A Viterbese text of Ranieri has the first recorded ''concedere''.^(TLIO)

+ * Before 1294 – Brunetto Latini uses ''concessione''.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1292–1293 – Dante uses the verb in the ''Vita Nuova''.^(LEI|16, 883)

+ * Before 1306 – Iacopone uses the participle ''conceduto''.^(DELI 1999)

+ * Before 1332 – Alberto della Piagentina uses it for “to admit as true”.^(DELI 1999)

+ * Before 1374 – Petrarch uses ''concesso''.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1365 – French ''concéder'' is first recorded.^(LEI|16, 883)

+ * 19th century – ''Concesso'' displaces ''conceduto'' in prose.^(DELI 1999)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # ''(transitive)'' To [[m|en|grant]], to give as a favour or by authority: ''L'azienda ha concesso un aumento a tutti i dipendenti.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # ''(transitive)'' To [[permettere|alt=allow]], to permit: ''I genitori le hanno concesso di uscire fino a tardi.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011)

+ # ''(transitive)'' To [[ammettere|alt=admit]], to accept as true: ''Su questo punto hai ragione, te lo concedo.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)

+ # ''(intransitive, literary)'' To yield, to give way.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011)

+ # ''(reflexive)'' ''Concedersi'': to allow oneself something: ''Quest'estate mi concedo due settimane al mare.''^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # ''(reflexive, literary)'' ''Concedersi'': to give oneself, to consent to sexual relations.^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Treccani 2011)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[concessione]]

+ * [[concesso]]

+ * [[concessivo]]

+ * [[concessionario]]

+ * [[concedente]]

+ * [[concedibile]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cedere]]

+ * [[la|concedo]]

+ * [[fr|concéder]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''Ammesso e non concesso'' introduces a hypothesis granted only for the sake of argument.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Gabrielli 2020) The past historic is ''concessi'', less often ''concedei'' or ''concedetti''; the past participle is ''concesso'', rarely ''conceduto''.^(Wiktionary)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}