Investiti

Investiti is the masculine plural past participle of the Italian verb investire. It functions in Italian as both an adjective and a past participle, and it can also appear in noun phrases. As an adjective, it agrees in gender and number with the noun it modifies, commonly referring to assets, funds, or resources that have been put to use, or more generally something that has received an investment.

In finance and management contexts, investiti describes money or resources that have been allocated. For example: I fondi investiti hanno generato profitti (The invested funds generated profits). It can also describe a person or entity that has been endowed with a role or authority, as in una persona investita di poteri (a person invested with powers).

As a substantive phrase, gli investiti can mean the people who have been invested with a status or, more frequently in journalism, those who have been injured in an incident: Gli investiti sono stati trasportati in ospedale (The injured were transported to the hospital). The sense depends on context and the noun it modifies.

Grammatically, the past participle agrees with the subject when used with essere in compound tenses or passive constructions: I fondi sono stati investiti. For feminine subjects, the form would be investite (e.g., Le risorse sono state investite). The etymology traces investire to Latin in- + vestire, originally “to clothe,” later extended to meanings such as endowing with status or committing funds.