invite

From Middle French inviter, from Latin invītō.

• enPR: ĭnvīt', IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvaɪt/
• Rhymes: -aɪt

invite (third-person singular simple present invites, present participle inviting, simple past and past participle invited)

1. (transitive) To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.

   We invited our friends round for dinner.

2. (transitive) To request formally.

   I invite you all to be seated.

3. (transitive) To encourage.

   I always invite criticism of my definitions.

   Wearing that skimpy dress, you are bound to invite attention.

   • 1902, Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt's Second State of the Union Address

     The refusal to maintain such a navy would invite trouble, and if trouble came would insure disaster.

4. (transitive) To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     to inveigle and invite the unwary sense

   • (Can we date this quote?) Dryden

     shady groves, that easy sleep invite

   • (Can we date this quote?) Cowper

     There no delusive hope invites despair.

• (ask for the presence or participation of): ask out
• (request formally): ask, beseech, entreat, request
• (encourage): ask for, encourage, provoke

From the verb invite.

• enPR: ĭn'vīt, IPA^(key): /ˈɪnvaɪt/

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invite (plural invites)

1. (informal) An invitation.

invite

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of invitar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of invitar

invite

1. first-person singular present indicative of inviter
2. third-person singular present indicative of inviter
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of inviter
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of inviter
5. second-person singular imperative of inviter

invīte

1. vocative masculine singular of invītus

• invite in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• invite in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• invite in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

invite

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of invitar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of invitar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of invitar.