Vendido

Vendido is a term used in Spanish and Portuguese to indicate that an item or asset has been sold. In Spanish, vendido is the past participle of vender and is commonly used as an adjective. It agrees with gender and number: un coche vendido, una casa vendida, los coches vendidos. It is used to describe objects that have been transacted or assigned to another owner, and can also indicate that a product is no longer available for sale, as in “el coche ya está vendido.”

In idiomatic usage, vendido can describe a person who has been bought off or compromised. The phrase ser vendido or ser un vendido is informal and carries connotations of corruption or betrayal, roughly equivalent to “selling out.” The term’s etymology traces to Latin venditus, the past participle of vendere.

In modern usage, the word is common in price listings and inventory status, especially in marketplaces and auctions, as well as in media headlines and colloquial speech to indicate that something has been purchased or allocated.

In Portuguese, vendido is similarly formed and used to mean “sold,” with feminine vendido/a and plural vendidos/vendidas as appropriate. The term appears in official records, retail signage, and everyday language across Portuguese-speaking regions.

Overall, vendido functions as a versatile marker of sale status in everyday commerce and as a cultural note on notions of ownership, scarcity, and, in some contexts, integrity.