英语词汇vendee的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	vendee
词源	vendee n. "person to whom something is sold," 1540s; see vend (v.) + -ee. Vendee department of western France, French Vendée, named for the river through it, which is perhaps from Gaulish vindos "white." Especially in reference to the insurrection there against the Republic in 1793. Related: Vendean. Entries linking to vendee vend v. 1620s, from Latin vendere "to sell, give for a bribe; praise, cry up," contraction of venumdare "offer for sale," from venum "for sale" (see venal) + dare "to give" (from PIE root *do- "to give"). Related: Vended; vending; vendible (early 14c.). Vending machine is recorded from 1889. -ee word-forming element in legal English (and in imitation of it), representing the Anglo-French -é ending of past participles used as nouns (compare -y (3)). As these sometimes were coupled with agent nouns in -or, the two suffixes came to be used as a pair to denote the initiator and the recipient of an action. Not to be confused with the French -ée that is a feminine noun ending (as in fiancée), which is from Latin -ata. updated on October 10, 2017
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vendee n.