rendition
noun
David SavoldAndrew Amelinckx 
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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 reddere, meaning "to return." Reddere 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 reddere 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 reddere descendent), as in "fugitives awaiting rendition to a neighboring state."
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Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
This February 1969 rendition is a tremendous showcase for his bass running like a jackrabbit just as frantically as Garcia’s lead guitar or the four-armed drumming of Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart.
—Jordan Hoffman, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2024
Throughout the entire season, be sure to take the Snow Globe Stroll to see seven life-size renditions of popular Christmas themes.
—Rebecca Deurlein, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Later, in 1961, Julia Child published Mastering the Art of French Cooking, which included her more traditional French rendition of the dessert—i.e. no syrup.
—Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 3 Nov. 2024
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“Rendition.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rendition. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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