Concessio

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A formal agreement or concession made to resolve a dispute or grant a request, often in negotiations
2. A yielding or compromise that allows for the agreement of differing parties by conceding certain demands or conditions
3. An act of granting rights, allowances, or privileges in a transactional context, typically to facilitate understanding or collaboration

Etymology: "Concessio" is a Latin noun meaning a granting or yielding, built from the verb "concedere," which combines "con-" (together, thoroughly) with "cedere" (to go, yield, give way). The core idea is of giving ground or stepping aside, and the same "cedere" root sits behind words like "cede" and "precede," which all share the notion of moving or yielding in one direction or another. In English, the form appears as a learned borrowing taken straight from Latin, so it kept its classical shape rather than being worn down through French speech the way many common words were. It is a doublet of "concession," meaning the two came into English by different routes from the same Latin source, and "concession" is the more familiar of the pair today. The unusual spelling of this version marks it as a scholarly import, the kind of term that appears in formal and academic writing.

Synonyms: concession