deditio

English

Etymology

From Latin dēditiō.

Noun

deditio

1. (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

• idioted, idoteid

Latin

Etymology

From dēdō (“to give away, to give up”) +‎ -tiō (noun-forming suffix).

Noun

dēditiō f (genitive dēditiōnis); third declension

1. a giving up, surrender, capitulation

   Synonym: datiō

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.27:

     Helvetii omnium rerum inopia adducti legatos de deditione ad eum miserunt.

     The Helvetii, compelled by the want of every thing, sent embassadors to him about a surrender.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	dēditiō	dēditiōnēs
genitive	dēditiōnis	dēditiōnum
dative	dēditiōnī	dēditiōnibus
accusative	dēditiōnem	dēditiōnēs
ablative	dēditiōne	dēditiōnibus
vocative	dēditiō	dēditiōnēs

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