invite
pronunciation
How to pronounce invite in British English:
UK [ɪnˈvaɪt , ˈɪnvaɪt]
How to pronounce invite in American English:
US [ɪnˈvaɪt , ˈɪnvaɪt]
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- Noun:
- a colloquial expression for invitation
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- Verb:
- increase the likelihood of
- invite someone to one's house
- give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting
- ask someone in a friendly way to do something
- have as a guest
- ask to enter
- request the participation or presence of
- express willingness to have in one's home or environs
Word Origin
- invite
- invite: [16] Invite comes from Latin invitāre, probably by way of French inviter, but there our certain knowledge of its ancestry ends; for the Latin verb is something of a mystery word. No one is too sure where the element -vitāre comes from. One suggestion is that it is related to Greek hiesthai ‘be desirous of’.=> vie
- invite (v.)
- 1530s, a back-formation from invitation, or else from Middle French inviter, from Latin invitare "to invite," also "to summon, challenge." As a noun variant of invitation it is attested from 1650s. Related: Invited; inviting.
- invite (n.)
- 1650s, from invite (v.).
Example
- 1. Some schools invite reformed business fraudsters to speak .
- 2. Today I invite you to look into this matter .
- 3. Yet the building 's symmetrical layout and monolithic scale invite other interpretations .
- 4. What 's more , such actions invite retaliation .
- 5. Did jack invite you to his swimming party ?