Invado

Invado is a Latin verb meaning to invade, to enter by force, or more generally to intrude into a space, territory, or domain. In classical Latin, it is used chiefly in military contexts but also appears figuratively for intruding upon someone’s privacy or rights. The verb is common in historical and legal texts dealing with warfare, borders, and conquest.

The principal parts of invado are invādō, invādere, invāsī, invāsum. It is a third-conjugation verb in form, with the infinitive invādere and the present active indicative first singular invādō. Its perfect form is invāsī, and the supine is invāsum. The passive is formed with the auxiliary and appropriate participles, and the perfect passive participle is invāsum in agreement with gender and number. Common derivatives include invāsiō, invāsīō (invasion or invasion-like action), and invātor (invader or intruder).

Etymologically, invādō comprises the prefix in- meaning “into” and a root related to going or advancing, underscoring the sense of moving into or entering a space. The word has given rise to descendants in the Romance languages, such as Italian invadere and invadere, Spanish invadir, and French envahir, as well as the English verb invade, all tracing back to Latin invādere.

See also: invasion, invader, invasionis (invasio). In modern usage, invādō’s sense ranges from military offenses to metaphorical intrusions, maintaining a neutral descriptor of action involving entering or intruding upon another’s domain.