investir

Borrowed from Latin investīre. Doublet of envestir.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [im.bəsˈti]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [iɱ.vəsˈti]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [iɱ.vesˈtiɾ]

investir (first-person singular present investeixo, first-person singular preterite investí, past participle investit)

1. to invest (to ceremonially install someone in some office)

• investiment

• investidura
• vestir

• “investir”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “investir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “investir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “investir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Latin investīre.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.vɛs.tiʁ/

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investir

1. to invest
2. to lay siege to, to besiege
3. to install into office, to vest, to give formal authority to

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

• investissement

• “investir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• vitrines

Learned borrowing from Latin investiō, investīre.

investir (first-person singular present invisto, third-person singular present inviste, first-person singular preterite investín, past participle investido)
investir (first-person singular present invisto, third-person singular present investe, first-person singular preterite investim or investi, past participle investido, reintegrationist norm)

1. to invest (commit money or effort)
2. to invest (ceremonially install someone in some office)

• “investir”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “investir” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Borrowed from Latin investīre.

• Homophone: investi (Brazil)

investir (first-person singular present invisto, third-person singular present investe, first-person singular preterite investi, past participle investido)

1. to invest (commit money or effort)

   Synonyms: empatar, embaraçar

2. to charge (move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat)

   Synonyms: atacar, acometer, arremeter

3. to invest (ceremonially install someone in some office)

   Synonyms: nomear, empossar

• envestir

Borrowed from Latin investīre. Doublet of embestir.

• IPA^(key): /imbesˈtiɾ/ [ĩm.besˈt̪iɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: in‧ves‧tir

investir (first-person singular present invisto, first-person singular preterite investí, past participle investido)

1. (transitive) to invest (to ceremonially install someone in some office)
   • 2015 September 14, “Baños acusa a Iglesias de querer dividir a los catalanes por su origen”, in El País‎^[1]:

     El diputado de la CUP David Fernández añadió que “no hay un sólo documento donde esté previsto investir a Mas. No le haremos el juego.

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2. (considered incorrect) to invest (to commit money or effort)

   Synonym: invertir

• “investir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024