invite
See also: invité
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle French inviter, from Latin invītō. Displaced native Old English laþian.
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
invite (third-person singular simple present invites, present participle inviting, simple past and past participle invited)
- (transitive) To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.
- We invited our friends round for dinner.
- Synonym: ask out
- (transitive) To request formally.
- (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.
- (transitive) To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.
- 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], H[enry] Lawes, editor, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, OCLC 228715864; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, OCLC 1113942837:
- to inveigle and invite th' unwary sense
- 1697, Virgil, “The Second Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:
- shady groves, that easy sleep invite
- 1782, William Cowper, The Progress of Error
- There no delusive hope invites despair.
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
ask for the presence or participation of someone
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request formally
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encourage — see encourage
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Etymology 2Edit
From the verb invite.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
invite (plural invites)
- (informal) An invitation.
- 2022 June 29, Paul Stephen, “Network News: Strikes set to escalate as RMT issues rallying call”, in RAIL, number 960, page 6:
- An open invite has been given to all UK workers to join in common cause with the union, as more than 40,000 RMT members at Network Rail and 13 train operating companies walked out on June 21 in the first of three 24-hour strikes over pay, conditions and job security.
TranslationsEdit
(informal) invitation
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AsturianEdit
VerbEdit
invite
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file)
VerbEdit
invite
- inflection of inviter:
LatinEdit
AdjectiveEdit
invīte
ReferencesEdit
- “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
RomanianEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
invite
SpanishEdit
NounEdit
invite m (plural invites)
VerbEdit
invite
- inflection of invitar:
Further readingEdit
- “invite”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014