convito

• IPA^(key): /konˈvi.to/
• Rhymes: -ito
• Hyphenation: con‧vì‧to

convito m (plural conviti)

1. banquet (for invited guests)

   Synonyms: convivio, banchetto

• convito in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

convito

1. first-person singular present indicative of convitare

From invītō, influenced by the unrelated convīvium (“a banquet”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /konˈu̯iː.toː/, [kɔnˈu̯iːt̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /konˈvi.to/, [koɱˈviːt̪o]

convītō (present infinitive convītāre, perfect active convītāvī, supine convītātum); first conjugation

1. (Medieval Latin, nonstandard) to invite

• convītātiō
  • 1257 C.E., Statuta Massiliensia

    Prohibemus ut nullus Notarius... recipiat... xenia vel dona, aut remunerationem, vel convivium seu Convitationem, etc.

    We forbid any notary... to accept... gifts or presents, remuneration, or [an invitation to] a feast or convitatio.

• Brodsky, David (2009) Spanish Vocabulary: An Etymological Approach, University of Texas Press
• convitare in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “convitare”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 174