English → Latin
“invest” in Latin
mandōto order, command, enjoin; to put in hand; deliver over; to commit, consigndēferōto bear, carry or bring down or away; convey; take, remove; to bring to market, sell; to give to someone, grant, confer circumsedeōto sit around, surround, encompass; to besiege, blockade, beset, invest, surround, encompassteneōto hold, have; to grasp; to possess, occupy, control; to watch, guard, maintain, defend; to retain, keepcircumdōto surround, enclose, encircle
The English word invest itself goes back to Latin vestis, through investire.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
invest
Clothe with, (1) PROPR., [Vid: CLOTHE]. (2) With an office, munus alicui dare, mandare, deferre; muneri aliquem praeficere: to invest anybody with the chief command, summam imperii ad aliquem deferre: to be invested with an honorable office, honore affectum esse; with a priesthood, sacerdotio paeditum esse: to invest with full power, infinitam licentiam alicui dare; alicujus arbitrio rem gerendam tradere or committere (the last two of a particular affair).
To adorn, grace, etc., Vid:
To place money at interest, pecuniam collocare (e.g., to invest it in land, in agris; in the purchase of estates, in emptiones praediorum, Gai., Dig., 17, 1, 2; in an estate, in aliquo fundo, in solo; with anybody, apud aliquem; at a high rate of interest, graviore fenore, Suet.): pecuniam occupare, with or without fenore; apud aliquem or in aliqua re; safely, pecuniam fundare aliqua re (Hor., Ep., 1, 15, 46).
Besiege, circumsedere: in obsidione habere or tenere: corona cingere, circumdare: corona moenia aggredi. Vid: BESIEGE.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for invest?
- The usual Latin words for “invest” are mandō, dēferō, circumsedeō; also teneō, circumdō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.