Etymology

surrendre

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Old French surrendre ← Latin reddō
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromreddō“to give back”
  2. Old French · derived fromsurrendre
  3. English todaysurrendre

From Old French surrendre, from sur- + rendre (“give back”), from Latin reddō (“to give back”), from re- + dō (“to give”).

Words from the same roots

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.