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cessas

cessas is a Latin form of cedo, meaning “go away, yield; give way”.

It can also be a form of cesso, “stop, cease; delay, be idle”. It is the 2nd person singular present active indicative or perfect passive participle accusative plural feminine.

Found 50 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Philippicae 2.110: … fastigium, flaminem? est ergo flamen, ut Iovi, ut Marti, ut Quirino, sic divo Iulio M. Antonius? quid igitur cessas? cur non inauguraris? sume diem, vide qui te inauguret: conlegae sumus; nemo negabit. O detestabilem hominem, …

Vergil, Aeneid 6.51: iam propiore dei. Cessas in vota precesque,

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.