Morpheme
Ces(s) [Ces, Cess]
Type
bound base
Denotation
go, leave, move, withdraw
Etymology
Latin cessus, from cēdere
Evidence
abscess, abscessed, access, accessible, accession, ancestor, antecessor, cessation, cession, excess, excessive, excessively, inaccessible, incessant, necessary, necessitarian, necessitate, necessitation, necessitous, necessitousness, necessitude, precess, precession, predecessor, process, procession, processional, recess, recession, secession, success, unnecessarily, unnecessary
Notes
classical base analysis
ancestor and antecessor are doublets
Modern Base Analysis
<Necessite> denoting “necessity”
alternative modern base analysis without suffixal constructions -itate, -itious, -itarian
from necessity, from Latin necessitās, from necesse + -tās, from ne- + cessus, from cēdere
necessitarian, necessitate, necessitated, necessitates, necessitating, necessitation, necessitous, necessitousness
