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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of dēdō.
Participle
dēditus (feminine dēdita, neuter dēditum); first/second-declension participle
- surrendered, consigned
- devoted to, dedicated (+ dative or in + ablative)
- alicui (or alicui rei) deditus ― devoted to someone (or something)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “deditus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “deditus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- deditus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- deditus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- designedly; intentionally: de industria, dedita opera (opp. imprudens)
- a life defiled by every crime: vita omnibus flagitiis, vitiis dedita
- to be the slave of one's appetite: ventri deditum esse
- to be given to drink: vino deditum esse, indulgere
- DIZIONARIO LATINO OLIVETTI