中仏の rendez vous, render yourself, show yourself から、rendez, render, give の複数形命令形、語源は render, vous, you と同じ、you の斜辞から。
英語の語源
rendezvous
rendezvous: [16] Rendezvous was borrowed from French rendez-vous, a lexicalization of rendezvous, the imperative plural of se rendre. This meant literally ‘present yourself’ – that is, at a particular place. English first used the word as a verb in the mid 17th century.
rendezvous (n.)
1590s, "place for assembling of troops," from Middle French rendez-vous, noun use of rendez vous "present yourselves," from rendez, plural imperative of rendre "to present" (see render (v.)) + vous "you," from Latin vos, from PIE *wos- "you" (plural). General sense of "appointed place of meeting" is attested from 1590s.
rendezvous (v.)
1640s, from rendezvous (n.).
例文
1. He failed to keep a rendezvous after sensing a police trap.
彼は警察が罠を仕掛けたことに気づいてから約束通りに面会しなかった。
2.She wondered where they were going to rendezvous afterwards.
彼女はその後彼らがどこへデートに行くのか知りたいと思っている。
3.I had almost decided to keep my rendezvous with Tony.
約束通りトニーと会うことにした。
4.The plan was to rendezvous with him on Sunday afternoon.
日曜日の午後に彼に会う予定です。
5.Their rendezvous would be the Penta Hotel at Heathrow Airport.