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accede

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See also: accède, accedé, and accédé

English

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WOTD – 27 May 2008

Etymology

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First attested in the early 15th century. From Middle English acceden, from Latin accēdō (“approach, accede”), formed from ad (“to, toward, at”) + cēdō (“move, yield”) (English cede). Compare French accéder. Unrelated to ascend, aside from the common ad prefix.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /əkˈsiːd/, /ækˈsiːd/, /əˈsiːd/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -iːd

Verb

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accede (third-person singular simple present accedes, present participle acceding, simple past and past participle acceded)

  1. (archaic, intransitive) To approach; to arrive, to come forward. [15th–19th c.]
  2. (intransitive, now rare) To give one's adhesion; to join up with (a group, etc.); to become part of. [from 15th c.]
  3. (intransitive) To agree or assent to a proposal or a view; to give way. [from 16th c.]
    • 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, “Preface”, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page iii:
      But in 1874 the editors of Scribner’s Monthly requested me to publish a popular account of the Colorado exploration in that journal. To this I acceded and prepared four short articles, which were elaborately illustrated from photographs in my possession.
    • 2007 November 18, Leslie Feinberg, “'Big lie' and breakup of Yugoslavia”, in Workers World‎[1]:
      Some of the countries of Eastern Europe had already acceded to all the privatization and austerity measures drawn up by imperialist bankers. The Socialist Federation of Yugoslavia was the last of the Eastern European workers' states trying to hold on to what was left of its planned, socialized framework of production and its collective ownership.
  4. (intransitive) To come to an office, state or dignity; to attain, assume (a position). [from 18th c.]
    • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 32:
      Maintenon had been governess to the children in the late 1670s before acceding to the king's favours.
  5. (intransitive) To become a party to an agreement or a treaty.

Usage notes

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(to agree, to come to an office, to become a party to): Use with the word to afterwards (i.e., accede to).

Synonyms

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Antonyms

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Derived terms

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Translations

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References

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Anagrams

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /atˈt͡ʃɛ.de/
  • Rhymes: -ɛde
  • Hyphenation: ac‧cè‧de

Verb

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accede

  1. third-person singular present indicative of accedere

Anagrams

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Latin

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Verb

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accēde

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of accēdō

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French accéder.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ak.ˈt͡ʃe.de/
  • Rhymes: -ede
  • Hyphenation: ac‧ce‧de

Verb

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a accede (third-person singular present accede, past participle acces) 3rd conjugation

  1. (intransitive) to accede, to reach (a place)

Conjugation

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    conjugation of accede (third conjugation, past participle in -s)
infinitive a accede
gerund accedând
past participle acces
number singular plural
person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present acced accezi accede accedem accedeți acced
imperfect accedeam accedeai accedea accedeam accedeați accedeau
simple perfect — — — — — —
pluperfect — — — — — —
subjunctive eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present să acced să accezi să acceadă să accedem să accedeți să acceadă
imperative — tu — — voi —
affirmative accede accedeți
negative nu accede nu accedeți

Further reading

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Spanish

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Verb

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accede

  1. inflection of acceder:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
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