deditio

English

deditio

(historical) In medieval Europe, an act of ritualized submission and request for mercy, performed before a monarch or other feudal lord.
- 2002, Sverre Bagge, Kings, Politics, and the Right Order of the World in German Historiography c. 950–1150, p. 164:
  A deditio implied a clear duty for the victorious party to treat his former enemy leniently, and the conditions for surrender were often arranged in advance.
- 2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin 2017, p. 617:
  The ritual of deditio was ostentatiously emotional, with tears of contrition both signalling submission and calculated to encourage a formal pardon from a king who risked losing face by failing to show clemency.

From dēdō (“to give away, to give up”) +‎ -tiō (noun-forming suffix).

dēditiō f (genitive dēditiōnis); third declension

“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.
- 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