Where does “vendor” come from?

Vendor comes from Anglo-Norman vendor, from Latin venditor, from Latin vendere meaning to sell, from Latin venum meaning sale, from Proto-Indo-European wes-.

vendor (English): A person or a company that vends or sells; A...

Definitions

  1. A person or a company that vends or sells; A...

Ancestry of “vendor”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Anglo-Normanvendor—
2Latinvenditorsecond-person singular future passive imperative...
3Latin-tor-er
4Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
5Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
6Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—

Words derived from “vendor”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →Every word from Latin -tor →Every word from Latin venditor →