cedimur

Cedimur is the first-person plural present passive indicative form of the Latin verb cedere, meaning “we are yielded” or “we are being yielded.” In English, the passive voice here conveys that the subject receives the action of yielding, while the active counterpart cedimus would mean “we yield” or “we give way.” The form is built from the base ced- plus the standard present passive ending -imur.

As a grammatical form, cedimur appears in contexts where the subject is the recipient of yielding or transfer of possession, with the agent usually expressed by a prepositional phrase such as ab or a to indicate who performs the yielding “to” or “by” someone else. In practice, the 1st-person plural passive is comparatively rare in ordinary prose and tends to occur in longer sentences or in literary, historical, or legal contexts where the action of surrender or transfer is being described from the point of view of the doer’s recipient.

In usage, cedimur can denote a surrender, cession, or transfer involving the speaker and others, often within clauses about territories, rights, or claims being yielded to another party. It is one of the standard forms available to Latin authors for expressing passive action, though it is less commonly seen as a standalone lemma in dictionaries than its active counterpart cedimus.

See also: cedere, cessum, cessio, cessus.