Render
/ˈrɛn.dər/noun
To present, display, or cause to become; also to give back or surrender.
Did you know?In older English and French usage, *render* could mean not just “to give back,” but also to **deliver up**—the kind of language used in legal and feudal acts of obligation and submission.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*re-
“back, again”
Latin
Latin
reddere
“to give back, restore, return”
Vulgar Latin
VL
*rendere
“to give back, yield up”
Old French
OF
rendre
“to give back, return, surrender”
Middle English
English
renderen
“to give back, surrender, pay, deliver”
Modern English
English
render
“to present, depict, translate, or cause to become”