"to invite" in seven languages
Meaningto invite
Spanish
invitar
/imbiˈtaɾ/
learned
Older popular convidar survives for treating someone: te convido a un café.
French
inviter
/ɛ̃vite/
learned
Italian
invitare
/inviˈtare/
learned
Portuguese
convidar
/kõviˈdah/
other source · Vulgar Latin *CONVĪTĀRE, INVĪTĀRE reshaped after CONVĪVIUM 'banquet'
Romanian
invita
/inviˈta/
learned
Catalan
convidar
/kumbiˈda/
other source · Vulgar Latin *CONVĪTĀRE, INVĪTĀRE reshaped after CONVĪVIUM 'banquet'
English
invite
/ɪnˈvaɪt/
from Latin/French · French inviter, Latin INVĪTĀRE
English → Italianto inviteinvitareCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
INVĪTĀRE‘to invite, entertain’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
All three verbs are learned, which is why they look so alike. Spanish once had a popular reshaping, convidar, which lives on beside invitar.
English relatives: invitation
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In a sentence
- esInvité a todos mis amigos.
- frJ'ai invité tous mes amis.
- itHo invitato tutti i miei amici.
- ptConvidei todos os meus amigos.
- roI-am invitat pe toți prietenii mei.
- caVaig convidar tots els meus amics.
- enI invited all my friends.