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Proceed

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to continue with or begin a course of action after a pause
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Stage 1 of 2
procedere
Latin · ancient
"to go forward"
to go forward, from pro- (forward) and cedere (to go, to yield)
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Stage 2 of 2
proceed
English · 1300s
"to continue with a course of action"
settled as the English word for continuing on a course of action
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