verbthird conjugation
dēcēdō
dēcēdō (present infinitive dēcēdere, perfect active dēcessī, supine dēcessum)
Classical[deːˈkeː.doː]Ecclesiastical[deˈt͡ʃɛː.do]
Meaning
- to withdraw, retire, depart, leave or go away
- to desert or abandon, give up, resign, forego; yield
- to yield, make way, step aside
- to die
- to subside
- to disappear
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
Conjugation conjugation 3
| form | present | imperfect | future | perfect | pluperfect | fut. perfect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st sg. | dēcēdō | dēcēdēbam | dēcēdam | dēcessī | dēcesseram | dēcesserō |
| 2nd sg. | dēcēdis | dēcēdēbās | dēcēdēs | dēcessistī | dēcesserās | dēcesseris |
| 3rd sg. | dēcēdit | dēcēdēbat | dēcēdet | dēcessit | dēcesserat | dēcesserit |
| 1st pl. | dēcēdimus | dēcēdēbāmus | dēcēdēmus | dēcessimus | dēcesserāmus | dēcesserimus |
| 2nd pl. | dēcēditis | dēcēdēbātis | dēcēdētis | dēcessistis | dēcesserātis | dēcesseritis |
| 3rd pl. | dēcēdunt | dēcēdēbant | dēcēdent | dēcessērunt dēcessēre | dēcesserant | dēcesserint |
active subjunctive
| form | present | imperfect | perfect | pluperfect |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st sg. | dēcēdam | dēcēderem | dēcesserim | dēcessissem |
| 2nd sg. | dēcēdās | dēcēderēs | dēcesserīs | dēcessissēs |
| 3rd sg. | dēcēdat | dēcēderet | dēcesserit | dēcessisset |
| 1st pl. | dēcēdāmus | dēcēderēmus | dēcesserīmus | dēcessissēmus |
| 2nd pl. | dēcēdātis | dēcēderētis | dēcesserītis | dēcessissētis |
| 3rd pl. | dēcēdant | dēcēderent | dēcesserint | dēcessissent |
passive indicative
| form | present | imperfect | future |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st sg. | dēcēdor | dēcēdēbar | dēcēdar |
| 2nd sg. | dēcēderis dēcēdere | dēcēdēbāris dēcēdēbāre | dēcēdēris dēcēdēre |
| 3rd sg. | dēcēditur | dēcēdēbātur | dēcēdētur |
| 1st pl. | dēcēdimur | dēcēdēbāmur | dēcēdēmur |
| 2nd pl. | dēcēdiminī | dēcēdēbāminī | dēcēdēminī |
| 3rd pl. | dēcēduntur | dēcēdēbantur | dēcēdentur |
passive subjunctive
| form | present | imperfect |
|---|---|---|
| 1st sg. | dēcēdar | dēcēderer |
| 2nd sg. | dēcēdāris dēcēdāre | dēcēderēris dēcēderēre |
| 3rd sg. | dēcēdātur | dēcēderētur |
| 1st pl. | dēcēdāmur | dēcēderēmur |
| 2nd pl. | dēcēdāminī | dēcēderēminī |
| 3rd pl. | dēcēdantur | dēcēderentur |
imperative
| form | active | passive |
|---|---|---|
| pres. 2nd sg. | dēcēde | dēcēdere |
| pres. 2nd pl. | dēcēdite | dēcēdiminī |
| fut. 2nd sg. | dēcēditō | dēcēditor |
| fut. 3rd sg. | dēcēditō | dēcēditor |
| fut. 2nd pl. | dēcēditōte | — |
| fut. 3rd pl. | dēcēduntō | dēcēduntor |
infinitives & participles
| form | active | passive |
|---|---|---|
| present infinitive | dēcēdere | dēcēdī |
| perfect infinitive | dēcessisse | dēcessum esse |
| future infinitive | dēcessūrum esse | dēcessum īrī |
| present participle | dēcēdēns dēcēdente, dēcēdentem, dēcēdentēs, dēcēdentī, dēcēdentia, dēcēdentibus, dēcēdentis, dēcēdentīs, dēcēdentium | — |
| perfect participle | — | dēcessus dēcessa, dēcessā, dēcessae, dēcessam, dēcessārum, dēcessās, dēcesse, dēcessīs, dēcessō, dēcessōrum, dēcessōs |
| future participle | dēcessūrus dēcessūra, dēcessūrā, dēcessūrae, dēcessūram, dēcessūrārum, dēcessūrās, dēcessūre, dēcessūrī, dēcessūrīs, dēcessūrō, dēcessūrōrum, dēcessūrōs, dēcessūrum | dēcēdendus dēcēdundus, dēcēdenda, dēcēdendā, dēcēdendae, dēcēdendam, dēcēdendārum, dēcēdendās, dēcēdende, dēcēdendīs, dēcēdendōrum, dēcēdendōs |
gerunddēcēdendī, dēcēdendō, dēcēdendumsupinedēcessum, dēcessū
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- mature decedere
- to die young.
- decessus aestus
- the ebb.
- de scaena decedere
- to retire from the stage.
- de potestate decedere
- to give up, lay down office (usually at the end of one's term of office).
- de, ab officio decedere
- to neglect one's duty.
- (de via) decedere alicui
- make way for any one.
- de sententia sua decedere
- to give up one's opinion.
- decedere loco, de, ex loco
- to quit a place for ever.
3 more phrases
- de iure suo decedere or cedere
- to waive one's right.
- (de) vita decedere or merely decedere
- to depart this life.
- (de or ex) provincia decedere or simply decedere (vid. sect. II. 4, note Cf. especially...)
- to leave a province (at the termination of one's term of office).
dē-cēdo, cessi, cessum, 3 (
I. inf. sync. decesse, Ter. Heaut. prol. 32; Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 2; Neue Formenl. 2, 536. The part. perf. decessus perh. only Rutil. Nam. 1, 313), v. n., to go away, depart, withdraw. (For syn. cf.: linquo, relinquo, desero, destituo, deficio, discedo, excedo. Often opp. to accedo, maneo; freq. and class.)—Constr. absol. with de, ex, or merely the abl.; rarely with ab.
I. Lit.
A. In gen.:
decedamus, Plaut. Bac. 1, 1, 74: de altera parte (agri) decedere, Caes. B. G. 1, 31, 10: decedit ex Gallia Romam Naevius, Cic. Quint. 4, 16: e pastu, Verg. G. 1, 381; cf.: e pastu decedere campis, id. ib. 4, 186: ex aequore domum, id. ib. 2, 205; Italiā, Sall. J. 28, 2: Numidiā, id. ib. 38, 9: Africā, id. ib. 20, 1; 23, 1: pugnā, Liv. 34, 47: praesidio, id. 4, 29 (cf.: de praesidio, Cic. de Sen. 20, 73): quae naves paullulum suo cursu decesserint, i. e. had gone out of their course, Caes. B. C. 3, 112, 3; so, cum luminibus exstinctis decessisset viā, had gone out of the way, Suet. Caes. 31: pantherae constituisse dicuntur in Cariam ex nostra provincia decedere, Cic. Fam. 2, 11, 2.B. Esp.
1. t. t.
a. In milit. lang., to retire, withdraw from a former position:
qui nisi decedat atque exercitum deducat ex his regionibus, Caes. B. G. 1, 44, 19; so, absol., id. ib. 1, 44 fin.; Hirt. B. G. 8, 50: de colle, Caes. B. C. 1, 71, 3: de vallo, id. B. G. 5, 43, 4: inde, id. B. C. 1, 71 fin.: loco superiore, Hirt. B. G. 8, 9; so with abl., Auct. B. Alex. 34; 35 (twice); 70 al.— b. In official lang.: de provincia, ex provincia, provinciā, or absol. (cf. Cic. Planc. 26, 65), to retire from the province on the expiration of a term of office:
de provincia decessit, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 20; so, id. Att. 7, 3, 5; id. Fam. 2, 15 (twice); Liv. 29, 19 Drak.: decedens ex Syria, Cic. Tusc. 2, 25, 61; so, e Cilicia, id. Brut. 1: ex Africa, Nep. Cato, 1, 4: ex Asia, id. Att. 4, 1: ex ea provincia, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 1 Zumpt N. cr.: ut decedens Considius provinciā, Cic. Lig. 1, 2; Liv. 39, 3; 41, 10: te antea, quam tibi successum esset, decessurum fuisse, Cic. Fam. 3, 6; so absol., id. Planc. 26, 65 al.: Albinus Romam decessit, Sall. J. 36 fin.; cf.: Romam ad triumphum, Liv. 8, 13; 9, 16. —Rarely with a: cui cum respondissem, me a provincia decedere: etiam mehercule, inquit, ut opinor, ex Africa, Cic. Planc. 26 fin.2. Decedere de viā; also viā, in viā alicui, alicui, or absol., to get out of the way, to give place, make way for one (as a mark of respect or of abhorrence):
concedite atque abscedite omnes: de via decedite, Plaut. Am. 3, 4, 1; cf.: decedam ego illi de via, de semita, id. Trin. 2, 4, 80 (Cic. Clu. 59. 163; cf. II. B infra); cf.: qui fecit servo currenti in viā decesse populum, Ter. Heaut. prol. 32: censorem L. Plancum via sibi decedere aedilis coegit, Suet. Ner. 4; cf. id. Tib. 31: sanctis divis, Catul. 62, 268: nocti, Verg. Ec. 8, 88: peritis, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 216 (cf.: cedere nocti, Liv. 3, 60, 7).—Also, to get out of the way of, avoid: decedere canibus de via, Cic. Rep. 1, 43, 67; cf.: hi numero impiorum habentur, his omnes decedunt, aditum defugiunt, etc., Caes. B. G. 6, 13, 7.—By zeugma, in the pass.: salutari, appeti, decedi, assurgi, deduci, reduci, etc., Cic. de Sen. 18, 63.3. Pregn., to depart, disappear (cf.: cedo, concedo).
a. Of living beings, to decease, to die:
si eos, qui jam de vita decesserunt, Cic. Rab. Perd. 11: vitā, Dig. 7, 1, 57, § 1; Vulg. 2 Mac. 6, 31; but commonly absol.: pater nobis decessit a. d. VIII. Kal. Dec., id. Att. 1, 6: cum paterfamiliae decessit, Caes. B. G. 6, 19, 3; Nep. Arist. 3, 2, and 3; id. Cim. 1; id. Ages. 8, 6; Liv. 1, 34; 9, 17; Quint. 3, 6, 96 et saep.: cruditate contracta, id. 7, 3, 33: morbo aquae intercutis, Suet. Ner. 5 fin.: paralysi, id. Vit. 3: ex ingratorum hominum conspectu morte decedere, Nep. Timol. 1, 6.—b. Of inanimate things, to depart, go off; to abate, subside, cease:
corpore febres, Lucr. 2, 34: febres, Nep. Att. 22, 3; Cels. 3, 3; cf.: quartana, Cic. Att. 7, 2 (opp. accedere): decessisse inde aquam, run off, fallen, Liv. 30, 38 fin.; cf.: decedere aestum, id. 26, 45; 9, 26 al.: de summa nihil decedet, to be wanting, to fail, Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 30; Cic. Clu. 60, 167; cf.: quicquid libertati plebis caveretur, id suis decedere opibus credebant, Liv. 3, 55: decedet jam ira haec, etsi merito iratus est, Ter. Hec. 3, 5, 55 (for which ib. 5, 2, 15: cito ab eo haec ira abscedet): postquam invidia decesserat, Sall. J. 88, 1; Liv. 33, 31 fin.; Tac. A. 15, 16 al.: priusquam ea cura decederet patribus, Liv. 9, 29; so with dat., id. 2, 31; 23, 26; Tac. A. 15, 20; 44.—Poet.: incipit et longo Scyros decedere ponto, i. e. seems to flee before them, Stat. Ach. 2, 308.—In the Aug. poets sometimes of the heavenly bodies, to go down, set: et sol crescentes decedens duplicat umbras, Verg. E. 2, 67; so id. G. 1, 222; Ov. M. 4, 91; hence also of the day, to depart: te veniente die, te decedente canebat, Verg. G. 4, 466; also of the moon, to wane, Gell. 20, 8, 7.II. Trop.
A. De possessione, jure, sententia, fide, etc. (and since the Aug. per. with abl. alone;
the reading ex jure suo, Liv. 3, 33, 10, is very doubtful), to depart from; to give up, resign, forego; to yield, to swerve from one's possession, station, duty, right, opinion, faith, etc. (a). With de:
cogere aliquem de suis bonis decedere, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 17 fin.; cf.: de hypothecis, id. Fam. 13, 56, 2; and de possessione, id. Agr. 2, 26; de suo jure, id. Rosc. Am. 27; id. Att. 16, 2: qui de civitate decedere quam de sententia maluit, id. Balb. 5: de officio ac dignitate, Cic. Verr. 1, 10: de foro decedere, to retire from public life, Nep. Att. 10, 2: de scena, to retire from the stage, Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 2; cf. impers.: de officio decessum, Liv. 8, 25 fin.—(b). With abl. alone (so usually in Liv.):
jure suo, Liv. 3, 33 fin.: sententiā, Tac. A. 14, 49: instituto vestro, Liv. 37, 54: officio (opp. in fide atque officio pristino fore), id. 27, 10; 36, 22: fide, id. 31, 5 fin.; 34, 11; 45, 19 al.: poema ... si paulum summo decessit, vergit ad imum, Hor. A. P. 378.—(g). Very rarely with ab:
cum (senatus) nihil a superioribus continuorum annorum decretis decesserit, Cic. Fl. 12.—(d). Absol.: si quos equites decedentis nactus sum, supplicio adfeci, Asin. Pol. ap. C. Fam. 10, 32, 5.
B. De via, to depart, deviate from the right way:
se nulla cupiditate inductum de via decessisse, Cic. Cael. 16, 38: moleste ferre se de via decessisse, id. Clu. 59, 163; so, viā dicendi, Quint. 4, 5, 3.C. (acc. to no. I. B. 2) To give way, yield to another (i. e. to his will or superior advantages—very rare):
vivere si recte nescis, decede peritis, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 213: ubi non Hymetto Mella decedunt, are not inferior, id. Od. 2, 6, 15.D. (poet.) To avoid, shun, escape from (cf. I. B. 2 supra): nec serae meminit decedere nocti, to avoid the late night, i. e. the coldness of night, Varius ap. Macr. S. 6, 2, 20; Verg. Ecl. 8, 88; id. G. 3, 467:
calori, id. ib. 4, 23.E. To fall short of, degenerate from:
de generis nobilitate, Pall. 3, 25, 2: a rebus gestis ejus et gloriae splendore, Justin. 6, 3, 8.III. For the simple verb (v. cedo, no. I. 2), to go off, turn out, result in any manner:
prospere decedentibus rebus, Suet. Caes. 24.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
dē-cēdō cessī
(inf. dēcēsse, T.), cessus, ere, to go away, depart, withdraw, retire: de alterā parte (agri), Cs.: de praesidio: ex Galliā Romam: e pastu decedere campis, V.: Africā, S.: praesidio, L.: naves suo cursu, i. e. went out of their course, Cs.—To retire, withdraw, retreat, fall back, abandon a position: nisi decedat atque exercitum deducat, Cs.: inde, Cs.: Italiā. — Of a provincial magistrate, to retire, surrender (office): de provinciā decessit: ex Syriā: provinciā: te decessurum fuisse: Romam, S.: Romam ad triumphum, L.—To give place, make way, retire, yield: servo in viā Decesse populum, T.: serae nocti, i. e. at the approach of, V.: calori, to escape from, V.: canibus de viā, avoid: his omnes decedunt, avoid, Cs. —Fig., to depart, disappear, die: de vitā: ex ingratorum hominum conspectu morte, N.: cum pater familiae decessit, Cs.: in paupertate, N.— To depart, go off, abate, subside, cease: febres, N.: nuntiatum est aestum decedere, L.: De summā nihil decedet, be wanting, T.: de causā periculi nihil: quaestioni materia decessit, L.: Decedet iam ira haec, T.: neque Decedit aeratā triremi cura, H.: postquam invidia decesserat, S.—Poet.: sol decedens, setting, V.: lux, tarde decedere visa, O.: decedentia Tempora, passing seasons, H.—To depart from, give up, resign, forego, yield, swerve: de suis bonis: de meo iure: de sententiā: de foro, to retire from public life, N.: de scenā: de officio decessum, L.: iure suo, L.: poema si paulum summo decessit, has fallen short of, H.: cum (senatus) nihil a decretis decesserit.—To depart, deviate: de viā, i. e. from right: instituto suo, L.: fide, L.— To give way, yield: decede peritis, be guided by, H.: ubi non Hymetto Mella decedunt, are not inferior, H.
Origins
- Proto-Indo-European*de
- Proto-Indo-European*déh₁
- Proto-Italic*dē
- Latindēcēdō
Latin dē- Latin cēdō Latin dēcēdō From dē- + cēdō.
Descendants
- Englishdeceased
- Englishdecede
- Frenchdécéder
- Italiandecedere
- Romaniandeceda