rendez-vous
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]rendez-vous (plural rendez-vous)
- Alternative form of rendezvous.
- 1790, Jane Austen, Love and Freindship[sic]:
- In my Mind, every Virtue that could adorn it was centered; it was the Rendez-vous of every good Quality and of every noble sentiment.
- 1814 August 17, Columbian Patriot[1], volume I, number 51, column 4:
- THE Subscriber has opened a Recruiting Rendez-vous in the village of Middlebury, for the reception of Recruits for the 31st regt. U. S. infantry, and invites the able-bodied and patriotic young men of the vicinity to repair to the Standard of their Country—erected at his quarters, where they may become entitled to One Hundred and Twenty-four Dollars BOUNTY;
- 1837 September 30, “The Duel”, in Maumee Express[2], volume I, number 26, Maumee City, Ohio, column 4:
- They made a brilliant entre’e into the cafe’—a general place of rendez-vous for the students and officers when they were not at daggers drawn.
- 2007 September 23, “Suite Deal Spa Package”, in Boston Sunday Globe, volume 272, number 85, Boson, Mass., page 47:
- Escape for a romantic rendez-vous and be treated to this suite deal, too sweet to miss!
French
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Etymology
[edit]Nominalization of the second person plural imperative form of se rendre; see rendez and vous
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rendez-vous m (invariable)
- date
- Synonym: (informal) rencard
- rendezvous
- appointment
- Synonym: (informal) rencard
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → English: rendezvous
- → German: Rendezvous
- Haitian Creole: randevou
- → Hungarian: randevú
- → Greek: ραντεβού (rantevoú)
- → Japanese: ランデブー
- → Macedonian: рандеву́ (randevú)
- → Polish: rendez-vous, randka
- → Portuguese: rendez-vous
- Brazilian Portuguese: randevu (“brothel”)
- → Russian: рандеву́ (randɛvú)
- → Spanish: rendibú (“deference”)
- → Turkish: randevu
- → Yiddish: ראַנדעוווּ (randevu)
- → Yola: randyboo
Verb
[edit]rendez-vous
Further reading
[edit]- “rendez-vous”, in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse
- Littré, Émile (1873–1878), “rendez-vous”, in Dictionnaire de la langue française, Paris: L. Hachette
- “rendez-vous”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Etymology tree
Unadapted borrowing from French rendez-vous.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rendez-vous n (indeclinable)
- date (meeting with a lover or potential lover)
Further reading
[edit]- “rendez-vous”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN[3] (in Polish)
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Etymology tree
Unadapted borrowing from French rendez-vous. Doublet of randevu.
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]rendez-vous m (invariable)
- rendezvous (agreement to meet; a location or time agreed upon to meet)
- (Brazil) alternative form of randevu (“brothel”)
Further reading
[edit]- “rendez-vous”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “rendez-vous”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French rendez-vous.
Noun
[edit]rendez-vous n (plural rendez-vous-uri)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative-accusative | rendez-vous | rendez-vousul | rendez-vousuri | rendez-vousurile |
| genitive-dative | rendez-vous | rendez-vousului | rendez-vousuri | rendez-vousurilor |
| vocative | rendez-vousule | rendez-vousurilor | ||
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
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Unadapted borrowing from French rendez-vous.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rendez-vous m (plural rendez-vous)
Usage notes
[edit]- According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
[edit]- Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “rendez-vous”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA
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