Etymograph

English

revend

Revend comes from Latin revēndere, from vēndō ‘to sell’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- ‘give’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*deh₃-1‘give’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dédeh₃ti1‘to be giving’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*didō1‘to give’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdō2‘give for sale’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvēndō3as vēndere‘to sell’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErevēndere3
  7. Old Frenchc. 842–1400revendre3
  8. Englishtodayrevend3

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin do
  2. 2 Wiktionary, Latin vendo
  3. 3 Wiktionary, English revend

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*deh₃-Wiktionary, Latin do‘give’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dédeh₃tiWiktionary, Latin do‘to be giving’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*didōWiktionary, Latin do‘to give’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdōWiktionary, Latin vendo‘give for sale’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvēndōWiktionary, English revendas vēndere‘to sell’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErevēndereWiktionary, English revend
  7. Old Frenchc. 842–1400revendreWiktionary, English revend
  8. EnglishtodayrevendWiktionary, English revend

Formed from re- + vend

Proto-Italic *wre- ‘again’

English re-

French vendre ‘to sell’

English vend

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- ‘give’

date, add, addition, delicious, donate, donation, donor, dow, additive, dowry, vendor, condone, rendition, dowager, addendum, perdition, dower, dati, sconce, endow, 37 more

through Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti ‘to be giving’

dose, antidote, anecdote, dacha, 17 more

through Proto-Italic *didō ‘to give’

dative, 14 more

through Latin dō ‘give for sale’

data, die, tradition, rent, treason, surrender, render, rendezvous, venta, 14 more

through Latin vēndō ‘to sell’

vent, 6 more

Today it means

verb Synonym of resell: to sell again.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “revend”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Latin do, Latin vendo. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- / revend

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