deditio

Forms

dēditiō f (genitive dēditiōnis); third declension^[1]

Etymology

It is formed from Latin dēdō (“to give up, surrender”) + -tiō.^[2][3][1] The verb is dē- with dō (“to give”), which de Vaan traces to Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to give”).^[1][4]

Earliest recorded meaning

Köbler's first source is Cicero.^[5]

Semantic evolution

It is the surrender of soldiers, a town or possessions, capitulation, common in the historians, Curtius has dēditiō suī, “surrender of oneself”, and Tacitus the plural, surrenders of cohorts.^[2][3] In law it is the cession of a right or title, and noxae dēditiō the handing over of a slave or animal to make good the damage it caused.^[2]

Church Latin glosses it “surrender, giving up, capitulation”.^[6] In Medieval Latin it is also homage.^[7]

Timeline

• 81–43 BC – Cicero.^[5]
• 1st century AD – Curtius of surrendering oneself.^[3]
• 98–115 AD – Tacitus of surrenders of cohorts.^[3][5]

Meanings

Noun

1. A surrender, capitulation.^[2][1][6]
2. (law) The cession of a right, noxae dēditiō, the surrender of a thing for the damage it caused.^[2]
3. (Medieval Latin) Homage.^[7]

Word family

• dēditīcius

Related words

• dēdō
• dō

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
3. ^ a b c d Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
4. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
5. ^ a b c Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
6. ^ a b Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson
7. ^ a b Niermeyer, J. F. (1976), Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden: Brill