English
invitation
Invitation comes from Latin invito ‘to invite, summon’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinvito‘to invite, summon’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEinvītātio
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500invitacioun
- Englishearliest quotation 1907invitation
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinvito‘to invite, summon’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEinvītātio
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500invitacioun
- Englishearliest quotation 1907invitation
Earliest quotation: 1907, Robert William Chambers, New York: “At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding…”
Equivalent to invite + -ation
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ- ‘to speak’
epic, wight, whit, epos, 31 more
through Proto-Italic *wōks ‘voice’
vocalist, vocally, voiceless, vocalize, 27 more
through Latin vōx ‘voice, speech’
voice, vocal, vox, vociferous, 27 more
through Latin vocō ‘to call’
advocate, provoke, provocative, vouch, vocational, invoke, irrevocable, provocation, vocation, revocable, provocateur, 30 more
through Latin invocō ‘to invoke’
through Latin invito ‘to invite, summon’
Today it means
noun The act of inviting; solicitation; the requesting of a person's company.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin invito / invitation