Etymograph

English

dedition

Dedition comes from Latin deditio ‘a giving up, surrender, capitulation’, from dō ‘to give’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*deh₃-1‘give’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dédeh₃ti1‘to be giving’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*didō1‘to give’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdō2as dare‘to give’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdedere2‘to give away, surrender’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdeditio2‘a giving up, surrender, capitulation’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1713dedition2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin do
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English dedition
  3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1713, Matthew Hale: “[A]lmoſt all Victories, […] end in Deditions and Capitulations,…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*deh₃-Wiktionary, Latin do‘give’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dédeh₃tiWiktionary, Latin do‘to be giving’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*didōWiktionary, Latin do‘to give’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdōWiktionary, English deditionas dare‘to give’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdedereWiktionary, English dedition‘to give away, surrender’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdeditioWiktionary, English dedition‘a giving up, surrender, capitulation’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1713deditionWiktionary, English dedition. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1713, Matthew Hale: “[A]lmoſt all Victories, […] end in Deditions and Capitulations,…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- ‘give’

date, add, addition, delicious, donate, vendor, donor, dow, donation, dowry, condone, dowager, additive, addendum, rendition, endow, dower, dati, sconce, perdition, 37 more

through Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti ‘to be giving’

dose, anecdote, antidote, dacha, 17 more

through Proto-Italic *didō ‘to give’

dative, venta, 14 more

through Latin dō ‘to give’

data, die, rent, surrender, vent, tradition, treason, render, rendezvous, 15 more

Today it means

noun yielding, surrender.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “dedition”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin do. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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