cease
/sis/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.03 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "And with that, his twitching ceased."
- "After a short while, it ceased to rain."
- "And with that, he ceased twitching."
- "The poor shall never cease out of the land."
- "[...] wherefore ceaſe we then? / Say they who counſel Warr, we are decreed, / Reſerv'd and deſtin'd to Eternal woe;"
- "’Twere best at once to sink to peace, Like birds the charming serpent draws, To drop head-foremost in the jaws Of vacant darkness and to cease."
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin cēdō Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Latin -tus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin -tō Latin cessōder. Middle French cesserbor. Middle English cesen English cease From Middle English cesen, cessen, from Middle French cesser (“to cease”), from Latin cessō (“leave off”), frequentative of cēdō (“to leave off, go away”). Compare secede.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /sis/
- British English: /siːs/
Usage
Inflected Forms
ceases (present, singular)
ceasing (participle, present)
ceased (participle, past)
ceased (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
ceased (first person, past)
ceasest (archaic, present)
ceased (past, second person)
ceasedst (archaic, past)
ceaseth (archaic, present)
ceased (past, singular)