different between retrocession vs recede

English

Etymology

Compare French rétrocession. See retrocede.

Noun

retrocession (countable and uncountable, plural retrocessions)

1. The transfer of risk from one reinsurer to another.
2. (law) The return of land, rights, etc. previously ceded.
3. Metastasis of an eruption or tumour from the surface to the interior of the body.
4. The act of retroceding; a going back.
   • 1878, The planisphere: and how to use it

     For example, suppose the Moon to be placed in 10° of any sign: suppose Saturn to pass over that spot and attain to the 15th degree of the same sign, and there become stationary; that his retrocession carries him back to the 8th degree, […]

Related terms

• retrocede
• retrocess
• retrocessional

Danish

Noun

retrocession c (singular definite retrocessionen, plural indefinite retrocessioner)

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Declension

Further reading

• “retrocession” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

English

Etymology

From Middle French receder, from Latin recedere (“to withdraw; to go back”), from re- + cedere (“to go”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???si?d/
• Rhymes: -i?d

Verb

recede (third-person singular simple present recedes, present participle receding, simple past and past participle receded)

1. To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.
   • 1725, Richard Bentley, The Folly and Unreasonableness of Atheism

     All bodies moved circularly have a perpetual endeavour to recede from the center.

2. To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor.

   to recede conquered territory

3. To take back.

(Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• withdraw

Derived terms

• receding

Related terms

• cede
• recedence
• recession
• recess
• recessive

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “recede”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• decree

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re?t??de/, [re?t????.d?e]
• Hyphenation: re?cè?de

Verb

recede

1. third-person singular present indicative of recedere

Anagrams

• cedere

Latin

Verb

rec?de

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

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ret??ede/

Verb

re?ede

1. inflection of re??an:
   1. first/third-person singular preterite
   2. first/third-person singular preterite subjunctive