Addiction
late 16th century (denoting a person's inclination or proclivity): from Latin addictio(n- ), from addicere ‘assign’ (see addicted).
wiktionary
From addict + -ion; compare (Latin) addictio(“an adjudging, an award”)
etymonline
addiction (n.)
c. 1600, "tendency, inclination, penchant" (a less severe sense now obsolete); 1640s as "state of being (self)-addicted" to a habit, pursuit, etc., from Latin addictionem (nominative addictio) "an awarding, a delivering up," noun of action from past-participle stem of addicere "to deliver, award; devote, consecrate, sacrifice" (see addict (v.)). In the sense "compulsion and need to take a drug as a result of prior use of it" from 1906, in reference to opium (there is an isolated instance from 1779 with reference to tobacco).
