rinviare

Rinviare is an Italian verb meaning to postpone, defer, or send back to be addressed at a later time. It is used to indicate that an event, decision, or action will be rescheduled for a future moment. In everyday language it can be transitive, as in rinviare un appuntamento (to postpone an appointment), rinviare una riunione (to postpone a meeting), or rinviare una decisione (to postpone a decision). It can also mean to defer something to a date to be decided later, expressed as rinviare a data da destinarsi.

In legal language the term appears in expressions such as rinviare a giudizio or rinvio a giudizio, referring to the act of bringing a case to trial or of deferring a decision to a trial. The noun rinvio, meaning postponement or deferral, is closely related and commonly used to describe the result of such postponement.

Etymology and formation: rinviare is formed from the verb inviare (to send) with the prefix ri-, in a figurative sense of sending the matter to a future time. This reflects the idea of moving something away from the present moment rather than canceling it outright.

Common synonyms include rimandare, posticipare, and differire, all conveying the idea of delaying rather than completing at the originally planned time. The term is widely used across domains such as administration, scheduling, law, and everyday discourse to indicate that a planned action will occur later rather than as initially scheduled.