different between forego vs cede

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /f??????/
• Homophone: forgo

Etymology 1

From Middle English forgan, from Old English foreg?n, equivalent to fore- +? go.

Verb

forego (third-person singular simple present foregoes, present participle foregoing, simple past forewent, past participle foregone)

1. To precede, to go before.
   • 1815, William Wordsworth, Methought I saw

     pleasing remembrance of a thought foregone

Usage notes

• The sense to precede is usually found in the form of the participles foregone (especially in the phrase "a foregone conclusion") and foregoing (usually used either attributively, as in "the foregoing discussion", or substantively, as in "subject to the foregoing").

Synonyms

• antecede, come before; see also Thesaurus:precede

Translations

Etymology 2

See forgo

Verb

forego (third-person singular simple present foregoes, present participle foregoing, simple past forewent, past participle foregone)

1. Alternative spelling of forgo; to abandon, to relinquish
   • 1762, Waller, T., The White Witch of the Wood, or the Devil of Broxbon, in The Beauties of all the Magazines Selected, for the Year 1762, Vol. I (February), page 34:

     […] for on no other terms does she desire a reconciliation, but will sooner forego all the hopes to which her birth entitles her, and get her bread by service, than ever yield to become the wife of the ——.

Usage notes

• Many writers prefer the spelling forgo for this sense, on the grounds that it avoids ambiguity with forego "to precede", especially in aspects such as "forgoing"/"foregoing" and "forgone"/"foregone".

References

• forego in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• forego in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• goofer

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French ceder, from Old French ceder, from Latin c?d? (“to yield”), from Proto-Indo-European *?yesd?- (“to drive away; to go away”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si?d/
• Rhymes: -i?d
• Homophones: sede, seed

Verb

cede (third-person singular simple present cedes, present participle ceding, simple past and past participle ceded)

1. (transitive) To give up; yield to another.

2. (intransitive) To give way.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• cede the field

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• dece

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t???.de/
• Rhymes: -?de

Verb

cede

1. third-person singular present indicative of cedere

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ke?.de/, [?ke?d??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?t??e.de/, [?t????d??]

Verb

c?de

1. second-person singular present active imperative of c?d?

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ce?de

Verb

cede

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of ceder
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of ceder

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

cede (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. third-person plural present of cediti

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /??ede/, [??e.ð?e]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /?sede/, [?se.ð?e]
• Homophone: sede (Latin America)

Verb

cede

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of ceder.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of ceder.