invito
Asturian
Catalan
Esperanto
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ito
Synonyms
Related terms
Latin
Etymology
Possible direct connection with *wekʷ- (“to speak”), whence separately vōx (“voice”); or a frequentative verb of invocō with invītō for invocitō, with invocitus for invocātus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /inˈwiː.toː/, [ɪnˈwiː.toː]
Verb
invītō (present infinitive invītāre, perfect active invītāvī, supine invītātum); first conjugation
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
- Eastern Romance:
- Romanian: învita
- Italian: invitare
- Old French: envier
- Old Portuguese:
- Portuguese: envidar
- Old Spanish:
- Spanish: envidar
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Sicilian: mmitari
- Venetian: invidar, invitar
- → Albanian: ftoj
- → Danish: invitere
- → Middle French: inviter
- French: inviter
- → Dutch: inviteren
- → Luxembourgish: invitéieren
- → Romanian: invita
- → English: invite
- → Scots: inveet
- French: inviter
- → Norwegian: invitere, invitera
- → Portuguese: invitar
- → Spanish: invitar
- → Swedish: invitera
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *convītō (see there for further descendants)
References
- invito in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- invito in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- invito in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to invite some one to dinner: aliquem vocare, invitare ad cenam
- to invite some one to one's house: invitare aliquem tecto ac domo or domum suam (Liv. 3. 14. 5)
- to invite some one to dinner: aliquem vocare, invitare ad cenam
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