Concedunt

Concedunt is a Latin verb form meaning “they grant” or “they concede.” It is the third-person plural present indicative active of concedo, concedere, concessi, concessum, a verb whose root is con- (together) and cedo (to yield). The sense of concedo includes granting, admitting, permitting, or yielding, and it is used in many contexts to denote allowing something or acknowledging a point.

In usage, concedunt appears in classical Latin to indicate that a group yields or grants some request, acknowledges a point in argument, or permits an action. The form can govern a direct object in the accusative when naming what is granted, or can introduce a clause stating the content of the concession, depending on syntactic construction. The verb’s range of meanings makes it common in legal, political, rhetorical, and philosophical texts, as well as in later Ecclesiastical Latin.

Concedunt belongs to a larger paradigm including other forms such as concedit (he grants), concedebat (they were granting), and concesserunt (they granted) in various tenses. The principal parts of the verb are concedo, concedere, concessi, concessum, which provide the basis for its full conjugation across tenses and voices.

See also: concede, concession, concessio.