venditor Latin · revision 32324

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la vēnum, la dō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈweːn.dɪ.tɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈvɛn.di.tor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''vēnditor''' ''m'' (genitive vēnditōris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|vendō|-tor|t1=to sell]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|vendō]] is contracted from a phrase made of [[m|la|vēnum|t=sale]] and [[m|la|dō|t=to give]], “to give for sale”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Wiktionary traces [[m|la|vēnum]] to [[ine-pro|*wes-|t=to buy]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler finds it first in Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who argues in ''De officiis'' that the buyer should not be ignorant of anything the seller knows.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a seller or vendor, the opposite of [[emptor]], the buyer, and it is common in the Digest.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Cicero also uses it scornfully of men who sell for bribes: “not consuls but traders in provinces and sellers of your dignity”.^(OLD 2012) It runs through the early medieval law codes and charters.^(Köbler 2010) English [[m|en|vendor]] came in the 1590s through Anglo-French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the duties of a seller and of officials who sell for bribes.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1590s – English [[m|en|vendor]] is borrowed through Anglo-French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|seller]], [[m|en|vendor]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # One who sells for bribes or corrupt payments.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[vēnditrīx]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}