invito

invito

1. first-person singular present indicative of invitar

invito

1. first-person singular present indicative of invitar

From inviti +‎ -o.

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• IPA^(key): [inˈvito]
• Rhymes: -ito
• Hyphenation: in‧vi‧to

invito (accusative singular inviton, plural invitoj, accusative plural invitojn)

1. invitation

• IPA^(key): /inˈvi.to/

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• Rhymes: -ito
• Hyphenation: in‧vì‧to

Deverbal from invitare.

invito m (plural inviti)

1. invitation
2. request, call
3. (engineering) bevelled or chamfered hole

• richiesta

• invitare

• → Neapolitan: 'mmito

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

invito

1. first-person singular present indicative of invitare

• vitino

Uncertain:

• Some connect the word with invocō (“to invoke”), as if some kind of frequentative form;
• Some derive the word from Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-to- (“pursued”), from *weyh₁- (“to chase, pursue”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /inˈu̯iː.toː/, [ɪnˈu̯iːt̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈvi.to/, [iɱˈviːt̪o]

invītō (present infinitive invītāre, perfect active invītāvī, supine invītātum); first conjugation

1. to invite, summon

   Synonyms: prōvocō, advocō, ēvocō, invocō, cito, arcesso, excio, accio

   Saepe amīcōs bonōs invītō ― I often invite good friends

2. to challenge

¹At least one use of the archaic "sigmatic future" and "sigmatic aorist" tenses is attested, which are used by Old Latin writers; most notably Plautus and Terence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, while the sigmatic aorist expresses a possible desire ("might want to").

• invītātiō

• Balkan Romance:
  • Romanian: învita
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: invitare
  • Neapolitan: mmetare, mittare
  • Sicilian: mmitari
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: invidâ
  • Romansch: envidar, anvidar, invidar, invider
  • Venetan: invidar, invitar
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: envidar
  • Old French: envier
    • → Middle English: envien
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Galician: envidar
  • Portuguese: envidar
  • Spanish: envidar
• Borrowings:
  • → Albanian: ftoj
  • → Catalan: invitar
  • → Danish: invitere
  • → Galician: invitar
  • → Middle French: inviter (see there for further descendants)
  • → Norwegian: invitere, invitera
  • → Portuguese: invitar
  • → Spanish: invitar
  • → Swedish: invitera

invītus (feminine invīta, neuter invītum, superlative invītissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. ablative/dative singular/plural of invītus

• “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^[1], 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)
    

• IPA^(key): /imˈbito/ [ĩmˈbi.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ito
• Syllabification: in‧vi‧to

invito (feminine invita, masculine plural invitos, feminine plural invitas)

1. (obsolete) invictus

   Synonym: invicto

invito

1. first-person singular present indicative of invitar

• “invito”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28