capitulation

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French capitulation.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

capitulation (countable and uncountable, plural capitulations)

1. A reducing to heads or articles; a formal agreement.
2. The act of capitulating or surrendering to an enemy upon stipulated terms; the act of ceasing to resist an opponent or an unwelcome demand.
3. The instrument containing the terms of an agreement or surrender.
4. An enumeration of the main parts of a subject.

Related terms

• chapiter
• chapter
• capital
• capitalism
• captain
• capitulate

Translations

surrender to an enemy

• Arabic: اِسْتِسْلَام m (istislām)
• Bulgarian: капитулация (bg) (kapitulacija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 投降 (zh) (tóuxiáng)

• Dutch: capitulatie (nl) f
• Esperanto: kapitulaco
• Finnish: antautuminen (fi)
• French: capitulation (fr) f
• German: Kapitulation (de) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: συνθηκολόγηση (el) f (synthikológisi)
• Japanese: 降服 (ja) (こうふく, kōfuku)
• Latin: dēditiō f
• Maori: haurarotanga, ngawheretanga
• Persian: کاپیتولاسیون (fa) (kāpitulāsion)
• Portuguese: capitulação (pt) f
• Russian: капитуля́ция (ru) f (kapituljácija)
• Rusyn: капітула́ція f (kapitulácija)
• Xhosa: ukuncama

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

capitulation f (plural capitulations)

1. capitulation

Further reading

• “capitulation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.