# rendez-vous
## English
### Noun

rendez-vous (plural rendez-vous)
* Alternative form of rendezvous
** 1790, Jane Austen, Love and Freindship: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, 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, 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
### Etymology

The second person plural imperative form of se rendre; see rendez and vous

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʁɑ̃.de.vu/
* Audio (France):(file)

### Noun

rendez-vous m (plural rendez-vous)
* date
    Synonym: (informal) rencard
* rendezvous
* appointment
    Synonym: (informal) rencard

#### Derived terms

* avoir rendez-vous
* rendez-vous galant

#### Descendants

* → 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
* → Yiddish: ראַנדעוווּ (randevu)
* → Yola: randyboo

### Verb

rendez-vous
* second-person plural imperative of se rendre

### Further reading

* “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
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French rendez-vous.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌran.dɛˈvu/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -u
* Syllabification: ren‧dez-‧vous

### Noun

rendez-vous n (indeclinable)
* date (meeting with a lover or potential lover)

### Further reading

* rendez-vous in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French rendez-vous. Doublet of randevu.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ʁɐ̃ˌdeˈvu/ [hɐ̃ˌdeˈvu]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ʁɐ̃ˌdeˈvu/ [hɐ̃ˌdeˈvu]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ʁɐ̃ˌdeˈvu/ [χɐ̃ˌdeˈvu]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ʁɐ̃ˌdeˈvu/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ʁɐ̃ˌdeˈvu/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ʁɐ̃ˌdeˈbu/ [ʁɐ̃ˌdeˈβu]

### Noun

rendez-vous m (invariable)
* rendezvous (agreement to meet; a location or time agreed upon to meet)
* (Brazil) Alternative form of randevu (“brothel”)

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French rendez-vous.

### Noun

rendez-vous n (plural rendez-vous-uri)
* date
* appointment