invent: [15] Invent originally meant ‘find’ (‘Since that Eve was procreated out of Adam’s side, could not such newels [novelties] in this land be invented’, wrote the anonymous author of a 15th-century song). It was based on invent-, the past participial stem of Latin invenīre ‘come upon, find’, a compound verb formed from the prefix in- ‘on’ and venīre ‘come’.
The sense ‘devise’, which developed via ‘discover’, actually existed in the Latin verb, but English did not take it on board until the 16th century. The derivative inventory [16] was borrowed from medieval Latin inventōrium ‘list’, an alteration of late Latin inventārium, which originally meant a ‘finding out’, hence an ‘enumeration’. => adventure, inventory
invent (v.)
late 15c., "find, discover," a back-formation from invention or else from Latin inventus, past participle of invenire a??to come upon; devise, discovera?? (see invention). Meaning "make up, think up" is from 1530s, as is that of "produce by original thought." Related: Invented; inventing.
例文
1. His father had helped invent a whole new way of doing business.
彼の父は新しいビジネス経を作るのを助けた。
2.We have to invent a new method for sneaking prisoners out without being noticed by the guards.
看守に気づかれずに囚人たちをこっそり抜け出すための新しい方法を考え出さなければならない。
3.I stood still，trying to invent a plausible excuse.
私は立ったまま動かず、言いなりの言い訳をしようとした。
4.Soon designers began to invent new idioms expressly for the toolbar.
間もなく、設計者はツールバーのために新しい慣用法を発明し始めた。
5.He can always invent a new game to divert the children.