invito

invito

1. first-person singular present indicative of invitar

invito

1. first-person singular present indicative of invitar

From inviti +‎ -o.

• IPA^(key): /inˈvito/

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• Rhymes: -ito
• Syllabification: 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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪnˈwiː.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [iɱˈviː.to]

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]

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 lure

   Synonyms: illiciō, alliciō, persuādeō, sēducō

   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Vergilius, Georgicon 4.109–111:

     Invitent croceis [apes] halantes floribus horti
     Et custos furum atque avium cum falce saligna
     Hellespontiaci servet tutela Priapi.

     May gardens bright, fragrant with flower, lure them [the bees] and Hellespontian Priap with his willow scythe the robbing bee and the birds keep away.

3. to challenge

¹At least one use of the Old Latin "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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

invītō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular 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)
    

From Latin invitus.

• Hyphenation: in‧vi‧to

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

1. unwilling; forced

   Synonyms: forçado, constrangido

invito

1. first-person singular present indicative of invitar

• “invito”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• 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 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025