The story
- Latin · derived fromvenditor“seller”
- Anglo-Norman · borrowed fromvendor
- English todayvendor
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman vendor (Old French vendeor), from Latin venditor (“seller”), from vendere (“to sell, cry up for sale, praise”), contraction of venundare, venumdare, also, as originally, two words venum dare (“to sell”), from venum (“sale, price”) + dare (“to give”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.