It's the word of the day for October 15.
Today's word is rendition, spelled R-E-N-D-I-T-I-O-N.
rendition is a noun.
A rendition, simply put, is the act or result of rendering something.
That thing may be a performance or interpretation, a depiction or a translation.
In US law,
rendition refers to the surrender by a state of a fugitive to another state that is charging the fugitive with a crime.
Here's the word used in a sentence from Pitchfork by Matthew Strauss.
Clement Scott, Dorothy Stewart, and Maywa Kahahao wrote Now is the Hour in the early 20th century.
Ben Crosby recorded one of the most famous renditions of the song in the late 1940s.
When a singer performs their rendition of someone else's song,
or a chef adds a few twists to someone else's recipe to concoct their own unique rendition,
each is, in a sense, returning.
Returning to something old in order to create something new.
Fittingly, the word rendition, which has been part of English since at least the early 1600s,
traces back ultimately to the Latin verb redire, meaning to return.
Red Array is also the ancestor of the English verb render whose many meanings include to give a performance of and to give up or yield.
Although Render took a different path from Reteray than did Rendition,
it's perhaps no surprise that the latter fundamentally means an act or result of rendering something and may be applied to everything from a performance depiction or translation of something to a surrender,
surrender being another Reteray descendant,