reddition

English

Etymology

From Latin redditio, from reddere (“to give back, to return”). Compare French reddition. See render and rendition.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹəˈdɪʃən/

Noun

reddition (countable and uncountable, plural redditions)

1. restoration; restitution: surrender
   • 1640, I. H. [i.e., James Howell], ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]. Dodona’s Grove, or, The Vocall Forrest, London: […] T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC:

     perfect obedience […] partly by voluntary reddition and desire of protection, and partly by conqueſt

2. explanation; representation
   • [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:

     reddition, or application of the comparison

     The spelling has been modernized.

References

“reddition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin redditiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛ.di.sjɔ̃/ ~ /ʁe.di.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

Noun

reddition f (plural redditions)

1. (formal) verbal noun of rendre

   reddition de comptes ― accountability

2. (formal) reimbursement
3. surrender, capitulation

Related terms

• se rendre
• rendre des comptes
• compte-rendu

Further reading

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