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venditio

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Pronunciation

  • Classical: [weːnˈdɪ.ti.oː][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [venˈdit.t͡si.o][1]

Forms

vēnditiō f (genitive vēnditiōnis); third declension[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin vēndō (“to sell”) + -tiō.[2][1] De Vaan explains vēndō as a shortened vēnum with dō (“to give”), “to give for sale”; vēnum goes back to Proto-Italic *wesno- and Proto-Indo-European *ues-no- (“price”), with cognates such as Sanskrit वस्न (vasná-, “price, value”) and Ancient Greek ὦνος (ônos, “price”).[3]

Earliest recorded meaning

De Vaan and Köbler date it from Varro.[3][4]

Semantic evolution

It is the act of selling, a sale: Cicero speaks of the sale of a man's property and of proscriptions and sales, and Seneca defines a sale as the transfer of one's own thing and one's rights in it to another.[5][2] By metonymy the jurists use it of the document recording a sale.[2] In medieval Latin it is a deed of sale, a payment to a lord for his consent to the transfer of a holding, and a toll on the sale of goods.[6] Köbler records it in the Frankish Formulae Andecavenses of the end of the 6th century.[4] Church Latin glosses it selling, sale.[7]

Timeline

  • 116–27 BC – Varro.[3][4]
  • 81–43 BC – Cicero of the sale of property.[5][4]
  • 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca defines a sale.[5][4]
  • end of the 6th century – the Formulae Andecavenses.[4]

Meanings

Noun

  1. The act of selling, a sale.[2][5][1][7]
  2. (law) The document recording a sale.[2]
  3. (Medieval Latin) A deed of sale; a payment for a lord's consent to the transfer of a holding; a toll on the sale of goods.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d e Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  3. ^ a b c de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
  4. ^ a b c d e f Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
  5. ^ a b c d Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  6. ^ a b Niermeyer, J. F. (1976), Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden: Brill
  7. ^ a b Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson