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cedant

cedant is a Latin form of cedo, meaning “go away, yield; give way”. It is the 3rd person plural present active subjunctive.

Found 26 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 5.34.3: Qua re animadversa Ambiorix pronuntiari iubet, ut procul tela coniciant neu propius accedant et, quam in partem Romani impetum fecerint, cedant (levitate armorum et cotidiana exercitatione nihil eis noceri posse),

Cicero, De Officiis 1.77: Illud autem optimum est, in quod invadi solere ab improbis et invidis audio: Cedant arma togae, concedat laurea laudi. Ut enim alios omittam, nobis rem publicam gubernantibus nonne togae arma c …

All forms of cedo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.