deditio

== 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. === Anagrams === idioted, idoteid == 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[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “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