invitavi

Invitavi is a Latin verb form from invito, invitare, invitavi, invitatum, meaning to invite or to summon someone to an event. It is the first-person singular perfect active indicative, translated as I invited or I have invited. As a member of the 1st conjugation, its other principal parts follow the regular pattern: invito (I invite), invitare (to invite), invitavi (I invited), invitatum (invited). The perfect passive participle is invitatus.

In usage, invito takes a direct object in the accusative to denote the person or thing invited, and it is common to add a destination or occasion with ad + accusative or with a prepositional phrase indicating the event. For example, ego amicum ad cenam invitavi means “I invited a friend to dinner.” The sense can cover inviting someone to attend a meal, a gathering, or another activity. The tense expresses a completed action in the past or a present perfect sense in English.

Etymology and related forms: invitare is a standard 1st-conjugation verb and has the associated noun invitatio, meaning invitation. The participle invitatus is used to form passive constructions or as an adjective.

See also invito, invitation, and other forms of the verb invito. Examples in classical Latin often appear with subjects and objects in the nominative and accusative respectively, and the event is often clarified by surrounding context or by ad + place or purpose phrases.