YIELD Copy link • YIELDTransitively. To bear, produce (of the earth, trees, etc.), ferre, efferre, proferre: fundere, effundere (of nature, the earth, a field; fundere and effundere = yield abundantly). To yield fruit or produce, ferre fruges, or ferre only: fructum afferre: efferre (especially of a field). The tree yields its fruit, arbor fert. To give, afford, etc., afferre (to bring): facere, efficere (to cause): esse (with dative): parere (beget, dolorem, taedium, etc.): creare (make, create; e.g., periculum, errorem, voluptatem): praestare (to supply). To yield profit or pleasure, utilitatem or voluptatem afferre; usui or voluptati esse: to yield anybody continual pleasure, voluptatem perpetuam praestare alicui; comfort, consolation, solatium dare, praebere, afferre; solatio or solatium esse. To yield no consolation (of things), nihil habere consolationis. To deliver up, tradere; dedere: to yield up the ghost, [Vid: DIE]. To concede, grant (in disputation), concedere (general term): confiteri (without conviction): assentiri (with conviction): dure (as a ground to argue upon). Do you yield that, etc.? dasne? (with accusative and infinitive). Who would not yield this? quis hoc non dederit? if you yield this, you must also yield that, dato hoc, dandum erit illud: this being yielded, quo concesso; quibus concessis. Intransitively. To give way, cedere: the sand yields (to the foot), sabulum vestigio cedit: a cushion which does not yield (when one sits on it), culcita quae corpori resistit. Not to resist, cedere, concedere (general terms): *morem gerere, obsequi (to comply with): manus dare (to declare one’s self conquered; Vid: Herzog, Caes., B.G. 5, 31): to yield to a person in anything, cedere alicui in aliqua re: to yield to the entreaties of anybody, alicujus precibus cedere; alicujus precibus locum dare or relinquere; alicui roganti obsequi: to yield to the will of anybody, alicujus voluntati morem gerere or obsequi: not to yield, in sententia sua perstare or perseverare. To give one’s self up to, alicui rei se dedere: studio alicujus rei se dedere or se tradere. PHR., voluptatibus se dedere or se tradere; servire; astrictum esse deditum esse. To be inferior, cedere; concedere (Vid: Herzog, Caes., B.G., 5, 7): inferiorem esse aliquo (to be under): to yield to a person in nothing, non cedere or non concedere alicui in aliqua re; non inferiorem esse aliquo aliqua re, parem esse alicui aliqua re (to be equal): aequare or aequiparare aliquem aliqua re (to equal): not to yield to one in luxury, aliquem luxuria aequare.