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 edit
Etymology edit
The second person plural imperative form of se rendre; see rendez and vous
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
rendez-vous m (plural rendez-vous)
- 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
- → Portuguese: rendez-vous
- Brazilian Portuguese: randevu (“brothel”)
- → Russian: рандеву́ (randɛvú)
- → Turkish: randevu
Verb edit
rendez-vous
Further reading edit
- “rendez-vous” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
- “rendez-vous” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “rendez-vous”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Polish edit
Etymology edit
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
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French rendez-vous. Doublet of randevu.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
rendez-vous m (invariable)
- rendezvous (agreement to meet; a location or time agreed upon to meet)
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French rendez-vous.
Noun edit
rendez-vous n (plural rendez-vous-uri)
Declension edit
Declension of rendez-vous
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) rendez-vous | rendez-vousul | (niște) rendez-vousuri | rendez-vousurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) rendez-vous | rendez-vousului | (unor) rendez-vousuri | rendez-vousurilor |
vocative | rendez-vousule | rendez-vousurilor |