succedo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sutˈt͡ʃɛ.do/
• Rhymes: -ɛdo
• Hyphenation: suc‧cè‧do

Verb

succedo

1. first-person singular present indicative of succedere

Etymology

sub- +‎ cēdō

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /sukˈkeː.doː/, [s̠ʊkˈkeːd̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sutˈt͡ʃe.do/, [sutˈt͡ʃɛːd̪o]

Verb

succēdō (present infinitive succēdere, perfect active successī, supine successum); third conjugation

1. to climb, mount or ascend, go from under; go up

   Synonyms: īnscendō, cōnscendō, ascendō, escendō, superscandō, ēnītor, scandō, suprascandō, subeō, ērēpō

2. to march on, advance, march up to, approach

   Synonyms: prōdeō, prōcēdō, prōficiō, prōgredior, aggredior, gradior, incēdō, subeō, accēdō, ēvehō, adeō

   Antonyms: facessō, dēcēdō, discēdō, cēdō, dēficiō, concēdō, inclīnō, recēdō, recipiō, referō

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.26:

     Quod res nulla successerat

     Because nothing had advanced

3. to follow, succeed in, to relieve (with dative of the thing or person being succeeded)

   Synonyms: subeō, sequor, excipiō

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.25:

     Ipsi recentes defessis succederent

     They themselves were relieving the exhausted [soldiers] by lively ones

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.25:

     Alteri successit tertius et tertio quartus

     The third succeeded the other and a fourth [succeeded] the third

4. to enter, go under, come under

   Synonyms: ineō, ingredior, introeō, intrō, subeō, accēdō, invādō, immigrō

   Antonyms: exeō, ēvādō, ēgredior, abeō, ēiciō

5. to be succeeded by

References

• “succedo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “succedo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• succedo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the matter progresses favourably, succeeds: aliquid (bene, prospere) succedit or procedit (opp. parum procedere, non succedere)
    
  • to succeed a person in an office: alicui or in alicuius locum succedere
    
  • to succeed some one as general: alicui imperatori succedere
    
  • fresh troops relieve the tired men: integri et recentes defatigatis succedunt
    

Verb

succedo

1. first-person singular present indicative of succeder