vendito Latin · revision 32858

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *wes-no-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''vēnditō''' (present infinitive vēnditāre, perfect active vēnditāvī, supine vēnditātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|vendō|-itō|t1=to sell]], a frequentative.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan lists it, with [[m|la|vendō]], among the derivatives of [[m|la|vēnus|t=sale]], which he traces to [[itc-pro|*wesno-]] and [[ine-pro|*wes-no-|t=price]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus.^(de Vaan 2008) Plautus has men in the Tuscan Street who sell themselves, and a mercenary who sells his life for gold.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to try to sell, offer for sale again and again: Cicero writes that someone is offering his Tusculan estate, and the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' speaks of those who hawk goods.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) It is also to sell favours or services for money.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note that it is most often figurative: to advertise the merits of something, cry it up.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Used with a reflexive pronoun it is to recommend oneself, court favour: Cicero asks whether any guilty man would not have made some show to recommend himself to public opinion.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of selling oneself and one's life.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of offering an estate and of courting favour.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella of fish ponds sold at a high price.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To try to sell, offer for [[m|en|sale]] again and again; of persons, to prostitute oneself.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To sell favours or services for money; figuratively, to [[m|en|betray]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To advertise the merits of, cry up, [[m|en|praise]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # With a reflexive pronoun, to recommend oneself, [[m|en|ingratiate]] oneself.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vendo|alt=vendō]]

+ * [[venum|alt=vēnum]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}