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.).
例文
1. 「Let 's invite her to dinner."-"Over my dead body!"
「彼女を夕食に招待しよう。」-「私が死なない限り!」
2.I invite every citizen to carefully study the document.
この文書を市民の皆さんによく読んでいただきたい。
3. "Look," she said, getting a brainstorm, "Why don't you invite them here?「
「そうだ」彼女は機転を利かせて言った。「どうして彼らをここに呼んでくれないの?」
4.He denounced the decision to invite his fellow archbishop to preach.
彼は他の大司教を同仁に招待する決定を痛烈に批判した。
5.Their refusal to compromise will invitably invite more criticism from the UN.