recedo

• IPA^(key): /reˈt͡ʃɛ.do/
• Rhymes: -ɛdo
• Hyphenation: re‧cè‧do

recedo

1. first-person singular present indicative of recedere

• cederò

From re- (“back”) +‎ cēdō (“to be in motion, go, move”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /reˈkeː.doː/, [rɛˈkeːd̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /reˈt͡ʃe.do/, [reˈt͡ʃɛːd̪o]

recēdō (present infinitive recēdere, perfect active recessī, supine recessum); third conjugation

1. (literal) to go back, fall back, give ground, retire, withdraw, recede

   Synonyms: dēcēdō, discēdō, dēficiō, concēdō, cēdō, excēdō, regredior, subtrahō, subdūcō, abscēdō, āmoveō, recipiō, referō, inclīnō, vertō, facessō

   Antonyms: prōgredior, prōdeō, prōcēdō, prōficiō, aggredior, ēvehō, incēdō, accēdō, adeō

   1. (in particular) to retire to one's bedroom; to go to rest
   2. (transferred sense)
      1. to yield, depart (of inanimate and abstract things)
      2. to stand back, recede, be distant or retired
2. (in general, literal) to go away, withdraw, retire, depart from a place; to abandon a thing

   Synonym: discēdō

   Ā lēgibus nōn recēdāmus.

   Let us not abandon the laws.

   1. (transferred sense, of things) to separate from anything
   2. (figurative) to withdraw, depart, desist; to vanish, pass away, disappear

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• recessim (adverb)
• recessiō (noun)
• recessīvus (adjective)
• recessus (participle)

• “recedo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “recedo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• recedo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to retire from public life: a re publica recedere