succedo

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Verb

succedo

1. first-person singular present indicative of succedere

Latin

Etymology

sub- +‎ cēdō

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /sukˈkeː.doː/, [s̠ʊkˈkeːd̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sutˈt͡ʃe.do/, [sutˈt͡ʃɛːd̪o]

Verb

succēdō (present infinitive succēdere, perfect active successī, supine successum); third conjugation

1. to climb, mount or ascend, go from under; go up

   Synonyms: īnscendō, cōnscendō, ascendō, escendō, superscandō, ēnītor, scandō, suprascandō, subeō, ērēpō

2. to march on, advance, march up to, approach

   Synonyms: prōdeō, prōcēdō, prōficiō, prōgredior, aggredior, gradior, incēdō, subeō, accēdō, ēvehō, adeō

   Antonyms: facessō, dēcēdō, discēdō, cēdō, dēficiō, concēdō, inclīnō, recēdō, recipiō, referō

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.26:

     Quod res nulla successerat

     Because nothing had advanced

3. to follow, succeed in, to relieve (with dative of the thing or person being succeeded)

   Synonyms: subeō, sequor, excipiō

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.25:

     Ipsi recentes defessis succederent

     They themselves were relieving the exhausted [soldiers] by lively ones

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.25:

     Alteri successit tertius et tertio quartus

     The third succeeded the other and a fourth [succeeded] the third

4. to enter, go under, come under

   Synonyms: ineō, ingredior, introeō, intrō, subeō, accēdō, invādō, immigrō

   Antonyms: exeō, ēvādō, ēgredior, abeō, ēiciō

5. to be succeeded by

Conjugation

   Conjugation of succēdō (third conjugation)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	succēdō		succēdis		succēdit		succēdimus		succēditis		succēdunt
	imperfect	succēdēbam		succēdēbās		succēdēbat		succēdēbāmus		succēdēbātis		succēdēbant
	future	succēdam		succēdēs		succēdet		succēdēmus		succēdētis		succēdent
	perfect	successī		successistī		successit		successimus		successistis		successērunt, successēre
	pluperfect	successeram		successerās		successerat		successerāmus		successerātis		successerant
	future perfect	successerō		successeris		successerit		successerimus		successeritis		successerint
passive	present	succēdor		succēderis, succēdere		succēditur		succēdimur		succēdiminī		succēduntur
	imperfect	succēdēbar		succēdēbāris, succēdēbāre		succēdēbātur		succēdēbāmur		succēdēbāminī		succēdēbantur
	future	succēdar		succēdēris, succēdēre		succēdētur		succēdēmur		succēdēminī		succēdentur
	perfect	successus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	successus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	successus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	succēdam		succēdās		succēdat		succēdāmus		succēdātis		succēdant
	imperfect	succēderem		succēderēs		succēderet		succēderēmus		succēderētis		succēderent
	perfect	successerim		successerīs		successerit		successerīmus		successerītis		successerint
	pluperfect	successissem		successissēs		successisset		successissēmus		successissētis		successissent
passive	present	succēdar		succēdāris, succēdāre		succēdātur		succēdāmur		succēdāminī		succēdantur
	imperfect	succēderer		succēderēris, succēderēre		succēderētur		succēderēmur		succēderēminī		succēderentur
	perfect	successus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	successus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		succēde		—		—		succēdite		—
	future	—		succēditō		succēditō		—		succēditōte		succēduntō
passive	present	—		succēdere		—		—		succēdiminī		—
	future	—		succēditor		succēditor		—		—		succēduntor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		succēdere			succēdī			succēdēns			—
future		successūrum esse			successum īrī			successūrus			succēdendus, succēdundus
perfect		successisse			successum esse			—			successus
future perfect		—			successum fore			—			—
perfect potential		successūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		succēdendī		succēdendō		succēdendum		succēdendō		successum		successū

• There is also a poetic variant of the third-person plural perfect active indicative form (successērunt) in successēre.

Derived terms

• successio
• successīvus
• successor
• successus
• succestrix

Descendants

• Catalan: succeir
• Galician: suceder
• Italian: succedere
• Old French: succeder
  • → English: succeed
  • French: succéder
• Piedmontese: sucede
• Portuguese: suceder
• Sicilian: succèdiri, succèriri
• Spanish: suceder
• Venetan: suceder, suçeder

References

• “succedo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “succedo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• succedo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the matter progresses favourably, succeeds: aliquid (bene, prospere) succedit or procedit (opp. parum procedere, non succedere)
    
  • to succeed a person in an office: alicui or in alicuius locum succedere
    
  • to succeed some one as general: alicui imperatori succedere
    
  • fresh troops relieve the tired men: integri et recentes defatigatis succedunt
    

Portuguese

Verb

succedo

1. first-person singular present indicative of succeder