A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

vendens,-entis (part.B): selling, vending [> L. vendo,-didi,-ditum 3, to sell, vend; to sell or give up anything for money (Lewis & Short); ); see venalis,-e (adj.B).

vendebat: third-person singular imperfect active indicative: [he/she] it sold.

- Excudebat atque vendebat Timotheus Green MDCCLI = Timothy Green printed and sold [this book] in 1751 (Maxwell).

vendit: third-person singular present active indicative: [he/she] it sells, vends.

NOTE: the passive uses venire (present infinitive): veneo, venii or venivi, venitum, “I am sold” (Wiktionary Dec. 2019); also vaeneo,-ivi,-itum 4; “used as passive of vendo: to be sold; (of a person) to be sold as a slave; (of services, favors, etc.) to be given or disposed of for financial gain” (Glare).

venit: third-person singular present active indicative: (passive sense) [he/she] it is sold;

NOTE: venit is usually the third-person singular present AND perfect of ‘venio’ - of veniens,-entis (part.B), q.v., he/she it comes, approaches.

- Parisiis, Sumptibus Sociorum Treuttel et Würtz, rue de Bourbon, n° 17. Venitque in Eorundem Bibliopoliis Argentorati et Londini. MDCCCXXIV, at Paris, at the expense of Treuttel and Wurtz, associates, rue de Bourbon, number 17. And is sold in the Booksellers of the same [i.e. men] at Strasbourg and London 1824.

veneunt: third-person plural present active indicative: (passive sense) they are sold.