different between environ vs invest

English

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French enviruner, environner (“to surround”), from environ (“around”), from en (“in”) + viron (“a turn”), from virer (“to turn, veer”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?va?.??n/, /?n?va?.??n/
• Rhymes: -a???n

Noun

environ (plural environs)

1. (especially in plural) A surrounding area

Verb

environ (third-person singular simple present environs, present participle environing, simple past and past participle environed)

1. To encircle, to surround.
   • a. 1631, John Donne, Elegy XII: His Parting from Her

     Environ me with darkness whilst I write.

   • 1673, John Milton, “I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs”:

     I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs

     By the known rules of antient libertie,

     When strait a barbarous noise environs me

     Of Owles and Cuckoes, Asses, Apes and Doggs.

Related terms

• environment

Translations

Further reading

• environ in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• environ in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• environ at OneLook Dictionary Search

French

Etymology

From en (“in”) + viron (“a turn”), from virer (“to turn, veer”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.vi.???/

Adverb

environ

1. about, close to, around

Noun

environ m (plural environs)

1. (especially in plural) a surrounding area

Related terms

• environnement

Further reading

• “environ” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• innover

Middle French

Adverb

environ

1. about; around; roughly
2. around

Occitan

Adverb

environ

1. about, around, approximately

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?n?v?st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French investir or Medieval Latin investire, from Latin investio (“to clothe, cover”), from in- (“in, on”) + vestio (“to clothe, dress”), from vestis (“clothing”); see vest. The sense “to spend money etc.” probably via Italian investire, of the same root.

Verb

invest (third-person singular simple present invests, present participle investing, simple past and past participle invested)

1. To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in.

2. (transitive, dated) To clothe or wrap (with garments).
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To put on (clothing).
4. To envelop, wrap, cover.
5. To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.
6. To ceremonially install someone in some office.
7. To formally give (someone) some power or authority.
8. To formally give (power or authority).
9. To surround, accompany, or attend.
10. To lay siege to.

11. (intransitive) To make investments.
12. (metallurgy) To prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand and plaster).
13. (intransitive) To be involved in; to form strong attachments to.

Synonyms

• (put on clothing): beclothe, don, dress; see also Thesaurus:clothe
• (lay siege to): besiege

Antonyms

• (clothe): divest
• (give): divest
• (commit funds): disinvest, divest

Derived terms

Related terms

• divest
• vest
• vestibule
• vestment
• vesture

Translations

Etymology 2

From investigate, by shortening

Noun

invest (plural invests)

1. (meteorology) An unnamed tropical weather pattern "to investigate" for development into a significant (named) system.

References

Anagrams

• ventis