Rendezvous
late 16th century: from French rendez-vous! ‘present yourselves!’, imperative of se rendre .
wiktionary
Borrowed from French rendez-vous(“appointment”), noun derived from second person plural imperative of se rendre(“to go to”), literally "[you (imperative)] go to, get yourself to [a place]."
etymonline
rendezvous (n.)
1590s, "place appointed for assembling of troops," from French rendez-vous, noun use of rendez vous "present yourselves," from the wording of orders, from rendez, second person 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; from c. 1600 as "a meeting held by appointment."
rendezvous (v.)
"assemble at a particular place," 1640s, from rendezvous (n.).
