words that end is cess
Word roots and routes: cess, cease, cede, ceed. exceed â excess recede â recession succeed â success, succession. Email this Post. Next in a series of posts exploring some of the ârootsâ and âroutesâ of English vocabulary. English has many related words containing the roots cede, ceed, cess and cease, derived from the Latin verb cÄdere (go, go away, withdraw, yield) and its past participle cessus. Cede and cease exist as independent words, but this group of roots flourishes particularly in combination with prefixes.