vendo Latin · revision 17944

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 235–200 BC, Naevius|origins=ine-pro *wes-no-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈweːn.doː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈvɛn.do]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''vēndō''' (present infinitive vēndere, perfect active vēndidī, supine vēnditum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ A perfect ''vendēdī'' is found in a legal document.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is contracted from ⟨vēnum dō⟩ “to give for sale” (also ⟨vēnundō⟩), from [[vēnum]], the accusative of [[vēnus#1|alt=vēnus]] “sale”, and [[dō]] “to give”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Etymonline) De Vaan derives [[m|la|vēnus]] from [[itc-pro|*wesno-]], from [[ine-pro|*wes-no-|t=price]], and compares [[sa|वस्न|tr=vasná|t=price]], [[grc|ὦνος|tr=ônos|t=price]] and [[hit|ušnii̯e/a-|t=to put up for sale]].^(de Vaan 2008) Its passive is usually supplied by [[vēneō]] “to be sold”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Naevius.^(de Vaan 2008) Plautus has ''ubi quās mercīs vēxeram omnīs ut voluī vēndidī'', “when I had sold all the goods I had brought, as I wanted”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Vēndere'' is “to sell” goods, and also to sell one's services or skills for a fee, especially those that should be given free.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) Pejoratively it means to sell a favour or privilege for a bribe, “to betray for money” (Cicero: one general lost his army, ''alter vēndidit'', “the other sold his”).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Causatively it is “to recommend, cry up”, to find buyers or admirers for something.^(OLD 2012)^(Etymonline)

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+ Döderlein says that in ''vēndere'' the disposal of the thing is the main idea, the price secondary.^(Döderlein 1874) Church Latin glosses it “sell, put up for sale”.^(Stelten 1995) English [[m|en|vend]] dates from the 1620s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 235–200 BC – Used by Naevius.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: ''omnīs ut voluī vēndidī''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato tells the owner to hold an auction: ''vendat oleum'', “let him sell the oil”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero: ''alter exercitum perdidit, alter vēndidit''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1620s – English [[m|en|vend]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|sell]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To sell (one's services) for a fee.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To sell for a bribe, [[m|en|betray]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Etymonline)

+ # To recommend, cry up, praise.^(OLD 2012)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vēneō]]

+ * [[vēnālis]]

+ * [[emō]]

+ * [[dō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}