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deditio

deditio

Latin

Noun

dēditiō f (genitive dēditiōnis); third declension

  1. surrender, capitulation

Inflection

Third declension.

Case 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
  • Félix Gaffiot (1934), “deditio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
  • Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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