concessio

See also: concessió

English

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin concessiō.

Noun
Examples
  • He may be a scoundrel, but he's our scoundrel.

concessio (uncountable)

  1. (rhetoric) The rhetorical device of conceding or admitting something but pardoning it.
    Synonym: concession
    • 2022, China Miéville, chapter 3, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:
      This long sequence skilfully deploys the rhetorical tropes of procatalepsis and concessio, pre-emption and concession: that is, they concede the accuracy of certain classic attacks on communism, but in ways that redound on their opponents.

Latin

Etymology

From concēdō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

Noun

concessiō f (genitive concessiōnis); third declension

  1. permission
    Synonyms: permissiō, concessus, venia
  2. grant, concession
    Synonym: concessus

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative concessiō concessiōnēs
Genitive concessiōnis concessiōnum
Dative concessiōnī concessiōnibus
Accusative concessiōnem concessiōnēs
Ablative concessiōne concessiōnibus
Vocative concessiō concessiōnēs

Descendants

References
  • “concessio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “concessio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • concessio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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