capitulation
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French capitulation; equivalent to capitulate + -tion. Derived from Proto-Indo-European *káput (“head”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap-.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
[edit]capitulation (countable and uncountable, plural capitulations)
- A reducing to heads or articles; a formal agreement.
- The act of capitulating or surrendering to an enemy upon stipulated terms; the act of ceasing to resist an opponent or an unwelcome demand.
- The instrument containing the terms of an agreement or surrender.
- An enumeration of the main parts of a subject.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]surrender to an enemy
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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin capitulātiōnem. By surface analysis, capituler + -ation.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]capitulation f (plural capitulations)
- (archaic) treaty, convention; especially a treaty regarding the rights of nationals of one party with respect to the government of the other party
- 1841, book title
- Capitulations et traités entre la France et la Porte Ottomane
- Treaties and capitulations between France and the Ottoman Porte
- 1849, François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe[1]:
- Il y a use belle capitulation entre Henri IV et Saint-Malo
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1841, book title
- surrender, capitulation (act of capitulating or surrendering to an enemy upon stipulated terms)
- Near-synonym: reddition
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Ottoman Turkish: قاپیتولاسیون
- Turkish: kapitülasyon
Further reading
[edit]- “capitulation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
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