venditio Latin · revision 32731

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=116–27 BC, Varro|origins=la vendō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [weːnˈdɪ.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [venˈdit.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''vēnditiō''' ''f'' (genitive vēnditiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|vēndō|-tiō|t1=to sell]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan explains [[m|la|vēndō]] as a shortened [[m|la|vēnum]] with [[m|la|dō|t=to give]], “to give for sale”; [[m|la|vēnum]] goes back to [[itc-pro|*wesno-]] and [[ine-pro|*ues-no-|t=price]], with cognates such as [[sa|वस्न|tr=vasná-|t=price, value]] and [[grc|ὦνος|tr=ônos|t=price]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Varro.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==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.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) By metonymy the jurists use it of the document recording a sale.^(OLD 2012) 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.^(Niermeyer 1976) Köbler records it in the Frankish ''Formulae Andecavenses'' of the end of the 6th century.^(Köbler 2010) Church Latin glosses it selling, sale.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the sale of property.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca defines a sale.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * end of the 6th century – the ''Formulae Andecavenses''.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The act of selling, a [[m|en|sale]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(law)'' The document recording a sale.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|deed]] of sale; a payment for a lord's consent to the transfer of a holding; a [[m|en|toll]] on the sale of goods.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vendo|alt=vēndō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}