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Exceed

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to go beyond a limit, expectation, or amount
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Stage 1 of 2
excedere
Latin · ancient
"to go beyond"
to go beyond, from ex- (out) and cedere (to go)
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Stage 2 of 2
exceed
English · 1400s
"to go beyond a limit or expectation"
settled as the English word for going beyond a limit
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