deditus

Forms

dēditus (feminine dēdita, neuter dēditum, superlative dēditissimus); first/second-declension adjective^[1]

Etymology

It is the participle of dēdō (“to give up, surrender”), used as an adjective.^[1][2] The verb is from dē- (“away”) and dō (“to give”), which de Vaan derives from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to give”).^[3][4]

Earliest recorded meaning

Köbler gives Cicero as its first author,^[2] who calls Crassus too devoted to the equestrian order, in the Brutus.^[1]

Semantic evolution

It is devoted or attached to a person or group, and given over to an activity, as Cicero's men given to frivolous love affairs; of an activity it is directed to one thing, as Cicero's constant practice devoted to a single subject.^[1][5] It takes a dative, in with the ablative, or an adverb.^[1]

The TLL records the phrase dēditā operā, “deliberately, on purpose”, which Festus explains as “very much given”.^[6]

Timeline

• 81–43 BC – Cicero of devotion to the equestrian order.^[1][2]

Meanings

Adjective

1. Devoted, attached, fond (of a person).^[1][5]
2. Given over (to an activity), addicted; directed (to).^[1][5]
3. dēditā operā, deliberately, on purpose.^[6]

Related words

• dēdō
• dō
• dēditiō
• dēditīcius

References

1. ^ a b c d e f g h Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
2. ^ a b c Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
3. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
4. ^ Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
5. ^ a b c Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
6. ^ a b Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften