invitat

Forms

invitat m (plural invitați, feminine equivalent invitată)^[1]

Etymology

It is from Romanian invita (“to invite”), the past participle of the verb used as a noun.^[2][3][1] DEX compares French invité, and Marcu takes the noun from that French word.^[2][4] The verb is itself a 19th-century loan, which DEX gives as inviter and Latin invītō and Tiktin as Italian invitare;^[2][5] Tiktin dates it to 1829.^[2][5]

Earliest recorded meaning

Klein's dictionary of 1801 already lists invitat with the Latin participle invitatus.^[6] Antonescu's French dictionary of 1875 gives invitatu as an adjective, “invited”.^[7]

Semantic evolution

Damé's dictionary of the 1890s has the noun, glossed with French invité.^[8] Șăineanu defined it as someone who has received an invitation, and CADE (1931) as a person asked to a wedding, a celebration or a meal.^[9][10] Scriban still treated it as an adjective, used of people invited to a feast, a dance or a ceremony.^[11] The MDA2's first record for the noun is in G. Călinescu's novel Enigma Otiliei (1946).^[3] Today the noun also means a person summoned to appear somewhere, and it overlaps with musafir and oaspete.^[3][2]

Timeline

• 1801 – invitat in Klein's dictionary, beside Latin invitatus.^[6]
• 1829 – the verb invita, according to Tiktin.^[5]
• 1875 – invitatu “invited” as an adjective in Antonescu's dictionary.^[7]
• 1893–1895 – the noun in Damé's dictionary.^[8]
• 1946 – the noun in G. Călinescu's Enigma Otiliei, MDA2's first record.^[3]

Meanings

Noun

1. A person asked to come somewhere or to take part in something; a guest, a visitor.^[2][3][1]
2. A person called to appear somewhere, summoned to a meeting.^[3]

Adjective

1. invited: asked to come, as to a party or a ceremony.^[10][12]

Related words

• invita
• invitație

Usage notes

Invitat is also the past participle of invita (am invitat “I invited”).^[1] The feminine noun is invitată, the plurals invitați and invitate.^[2]

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 521
3. ^ a b c d e f Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 1159
4. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. invitat
5. ^ a b c Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. invita
6. ^ a b Gáldi, László (ed.) (1944), Samuel Klein: Dictionarium valachico-latinum. Primul dicționar al limbii române, Budapest: Királyi Magyar Pázmány Péter Tudományegyetemi Román Intézet (Klein's dictionary of 1801, with Gáldi's etymological study), p. 386
7. ^ a b Antonescu, G. M. (1875), Dictionariu romanu-francesu, Bucuresci: Typografia Curții (Lucrători Associați), p. 153
8. ^ a b Damé, Frédéric (1893–1895), Nouveau dictionnaire roumain-français, 4 vols., Bucarest: Imprimerie de l'État, p. s.v. invitat
9. ^ Șăineanu, Lazăr (1929), Dicționar universal al limbei române, 6th ed., Craiova: Scrisul Românesc, p. 340
10. ^ a b Candrea, I.-A.; Adamescu, Gh. (1926–1931), Dicționarul enciclopedic ilustrat „Cartea Românească”, București: Cartea Românească, p. s.v. invitat
11. ^ Scriban, August (1939), Dicționaru limbii românești (etimologii, înțelesuri, exemple, citațiuni, arhaizme, neologizme, provincializme), Iași: Presa Bună, p. 655
12. ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2002), Noul dicționar explicativ al limbii române, București: Litera Internațional, p. s.v. invitat