vend

English

Etymology 1

From French vendre, from Old French vendre, from Latin vendere, from vēnum (“(something for) sale”) + dare (“to give”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛnd/

• Audio (AU)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛnd

Verb

vend (third-person singular simple present vends, present participle vending, simple past and past participle vended)

1. Synonym of sell, now especially to sell through a vending machine.
   • 1992 September 9, Trish Hall, “Vending Machines, the Next Generation in Dining”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     Vending has been slow to change partly because the business for years could depend on what it called the four C's: cold drinks, candy, confections and cigarettes.

   • 2020 October 6, Saritha Rai, “Amazon Launches Month-Long Sale in Battle for Indian Wallets”, in Bloomberg.com‎:

     Amazon said over 20,000 small stores have signed on to its Local Shops program over five months to vend basics like household essentials and fresh flowers.

2. (programming, transitive, uncommon) To provide or export functionality, especially from an API.
   • 2002, Ravi Mendis, WebObjects Developer's Guide, Sams Publishing, →ISBN, page 289:

     As you've seen, vending FO documents is pretty straightforward from WebObjects. It is just like vending HTML, XHTML, or SVG.

Derived terms

Related terms

Noun

vend (plural vends)

1. The act of vending or selling; a sale.
2. (UK, Australia, dated) The total sales of coal from a colliery.

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old Norse vend. Compare wynn.

Noun

vend (plural vends)

1. The letter Ꝩ/ꝩ, used in Old Norse, related to the rune wynn (ᚹ, whence also Latin-script Ƿ/ƿ) but with the bowl open at the top, like a y.
   • 1874, Richard Cleasby, Gudbrand Vigfusson, An Icelandic-English Dictionary, page 707:

     [...] a gramm. term, implying the use of the old letter 'vend' in spelling v-rungu, v-rangr, v-reiðr, see introduction to letter R; ...

   • 2005, Diana L. Paxson, Taking Up The Runes: A Complete Guide To Using Runes In Spells, Rituals, Divination, And Magic, Weiser Books, →ISBN, page 88:

     In Old English, the meaning of wynn is the same. In Old Norse, the etymological equivalents of words beginning with w are spelled with a v, the letter named “vend” in the Icelandic alphabet.

Further reading

• vend (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• D. Nev.

Albanian

Alternative forms

• vënd — Tosk
• (Gheg) ven
• (Gheg) venn

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *wen-ta, from earlier *wena. A gerund formation from vë. Has been compared to the Illyrian-derived toponyms Vendum and Avendius (compare Οὐένδων (Ouéndōn)).

Noun

vend m (plural vende, definite vendi, definite plural vendet)

1. place
2. location
3. (plot of) land

Declension

Derived terms

• vendos
• vendor
• vendim

Related terms

• vë

See also

• vis
• visele

References

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛn/,

Verb

vend

1. imperative of vende

Estonian

Etymology

Possibly an irregular variant of veli (“brother”), influenced by Swedish vän (“friend”).

Noun

vend (genitive venna, partitive venda)

1. brother
2. (colloquial) guy, dude, fellow, chap

Declension

Related terms

• õde
• vennas
• veli

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɑ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

Verb

vend

1. third-person singular present indicative of vendre

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Wende (“Wend, Sorbian”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: vend
• Rhymes: -ɛnd

Adjective

vend (not comparable)

1. Wendish, Sorbian

Declension

Derived terms

Noun

vend (plural vendek)

1. (dated) Slovene, Slovenian (person)
2. Wend, Sorb (person)
3. (singular only) Wendish, Sorbian (language)

Declension

See also

• szlovén

Further reading

• vend in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Lombard

Etymology

Akin to Italian vendere, from Latin.

Verb

vend

1. to sell

Middle English

Noun

vend (plural vendes)

1. Alternative form of feend

Norman

Verb

vend

1. inflection of vendre:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

vend

1. imperative of vende

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Of the verb venda (“to turn”).

Noun

vend f (definite singular venda, indefinite plural vender, definite plural vendene)

1. a turnaround, switch
2. (poetry, music) a stanza, or the tune of one
3. (weaving) outside of a woven fabric
4. (weaving) a diagonal line in a woven fabric

Participle

vend (neuter vendt, definite singular and plural vende)

1. past participle of venda

Verb

vend

1. imperative of venda
2. (non-standard since 2012) supine of venda

Etymology 2

Participle

vend (neuter singular vent, definite singular and plural vende)

1. past participle of venna

Verb

vend

1. (non-standard since 2012) supine of venna

References

• “vend” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.