"investment" in seven languages
Meaninginvestment
Spanish
inversión
/inbeɾˈsjon/
fem.other source · Latin INVERSIŌNEM 'a turning over' (learned)
French
investissement
/ɛ̃vɛstismɑ̃/
masc.learned
Italian
investimento
/investiˈmento/
masc.learned
Portuguese
investimento
/ĩvestʃiˈmẽtu/
masc.learned
Romanian
investiție
/invesˈtitsie/
fem.learned
Catalan
inversió
/imbəɾsiˈo/
fem.other source · Latin INVERSIŌNEM 'a turning over' (learned)
English
investment
/ɪnˈvɛstmənt/
from Latin/French · invest, from Italian investire and Latin INVESTĪRE
English → ItalianinvestmentinvestimentoCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
INVESTĪRE‘to clothe, to cover’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
To invest was first to dress someone in the robes of an office; money got 'clothed' in a business later. Spanish goes its own way with inversión, from 'turning over' — invertir is both to invest and to invert.
English relatives: invest, vest, vestment
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In a sentence
- esComprar una casa es una buena inversión.
- frAcheter une maison, c'est un bon investissement.
- itComprare casa è un buon investimento.
- ptComprar uma casa é um bom investimento.
- roSă cumperi o casă e o investiție bună.
- caComprar una casa és una bona inversió.
- enBuying a house is a good investment.