LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
noun · femininethird declension

dēditiō

dēditiō f (genitive dēditiōnis)

Meaning

  1. a giving up, surrender, capitulation
    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.c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico 1.27

Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers

cum victī sē hostibus trādunt
surrender
dēditiō -ōnis (f) — in De Bello Gallico II, ch. 4

Declension

declension
formsingularplural
nominativedēditiōdēditiōnēs
genitivedēditiōnisdēditiōnum
dativedēditiōnīdēditiōnibus
accusativedēditiōnemdēditiōnēs
ablativedēditiōnedēditiōnibus
vocativedēditiōdēditiōnēs

Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book

populum in deditionem accipere
to accept the submission of a people.
deditione facta (Sall. Iug. 26)
after capitulation.
populum in deditionem venire cogere
to reduce a country to subjection to oneself.
in deditionem venire (without alicui)
to make one's submission to some one.

dēdĭtĭo, ōnis, f. dedo, no. I. B.,
I. a (military) giving up, a surrender, capitulation (freq. in the historians).—With subj. gen.: deditio sui, Curt. 5, 1, 18.— Plur.: deditiones cohortium, Tac. H. 3, 70. —With gen. obj.: ipsius corporis, Dig. 9, 4, 1; Liv. 31, 18, 6; but usually absol.: Helvetii legatos de deditione ad eum miserunt, Caes. B. G. 1, 27; cf.: de deditione agere, id. B. C. 3, 28; 3, 97: aliquem in deditionem petere, Aur. Vict. Vir. Ill. 23, 7: aliquem in deditionem accipere, id. B. G. 1, 28; 2, 13; Sall. J. 29, 5; Liv. 23, 30 et saep.: seque in deditionem ut recipiat, Caes. B. G. 3, 21 fin.: in deditionem redigere, Flor. 3, 10, 25: deditionis condicio, Caes. B. G. 2, 32: deditione facta, id. ib. 2, 33: subire deditionem, id. B. C. 1, 81, 5: in deditionem venire, to surrender, id. ib. 3, 99, 3; Liv. 9, 20; 40, 33: omissa deditione, Sall. J. 66, 1; cf. id. ib. 70, 1 Kritz.: deditio ad tam infestos, Liv. 28, 22; cf.: ad Romanos, id. 8, 25: cum locum tibi reliquum non modo ad pacem, sed ne ad deditionem quidem feceris, Cic. Phil. 13, 21, 48 et saep. An unusual combination is deditionem suam ad aliquem absentem mittere, Flor. 3, 7, 5; v. Graev. ad loc.

Origins

  1. Proto-Indo-European*de
  2. Proto-Indo-European*déh₁
  3. Proto-Italic*dē
  4. Latindēditiō

Latin dē- Proto-Indo-European *deh₃-redup. Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti Proto-Italic *didō Latin dō Latin dēdō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin dēditiō From dēdō (“to give away, to give up”) + -tiō (noun-forming suffix).

In English words that came into English from dēditiō

  • deditiondēditiō

Quick answers

What does dēditiō mean in Latin?
dēditiō, a noun, means “a giving up, surrender, capitulation”.
What is the genitive of dēditiō?
The genitive singular is dēditiōnis. dēditiō is feminine, third declension.
Where does dēditiō come from?
Proto-Indo-European *de → Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ → Proto-Italic *dē → Latin dēditiō.