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English
Etymology
From Latin dēditiō.
Noun
deditio
- (historical) In medieval Europe, an act of ritualized submission and request for mercy, performed before a monarch or other feudal lord.
2002, Sverre Bagge, Kings, Politics, and the Right Order of the World in German Historiography c. 950–1150, page 164:A deditio implied a clear duty for the victorious party to treat his former enemy leniently, and the conditions for surrender were often arranged in advance.
2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 617:The ritual of deditio was ostentatiously emotional, with tears of contrition both signalling submission and calculated to encourage a formal pardon from a king who risked losing face by failing to show clemency.
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From dēdō (“to give away, to give up”) + -tiō (noun-forming suffix).
Noun
dēditiō f (genitive dēditiōnis); third declension
- a giving up, surrender, capitulation
- Synonym: datiō
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “deditio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “deditio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- deditio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- after capitulation: deditione facta (Sall. Iug. 26)
- to reduce a country to subjection to oneself: populum in deditionem venire cogere
- to accept the submission of a people: populum in deditionem accipere
- to make one's submission to some one: in deditionem venire (without alicui)
- “deditio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “deditio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin