different between investment vs investiture

English

Etymology

invest +? -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?v?stm?nt/, /?n?v?sm?nt/

Noun

investment (countable and uncountable, plural investments)

1. The act of investing, or state of being invested.

2. (finance) A placement of capital in expectation of deriving income or profit from its use or appreciation.

   Antonym: divestment

   • An investment in ink, paper, and steel pens.
3. (obsolete) A vestment.
4. (military) The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded.
   • 1875, John Howard Hinton, History of the United States of America, from the First Settlement

     the investment of the fort

5. A mixture of silica sand and plaster which, by surrounding a wax pattern, creates a negative mold of the form used for casting, among other metals, bronze.

Translations

References

• investment at OneLook Dictionary Search
• investment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

From Middle French investiture, from Medieval Latin invest?t?ra, from invest?re (“to clothe”).

Noun

investiture (plural investitures)

1. The act of investing, as with possession or power; formal bestowal or presentation of a possessory or prescriptive right.
2. That which invests or clothes; covering; vestment.

Translations

Further reading

• investiture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• investiture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “investiture”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• Investiture in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

French

Etymology

Middle French, borrowed from Medieval Latin invest?t?ra. Displaced Old French envesture.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.v?s.ti.ty?/

Noun

investiture f (plural investitures)

1. investiture
2. (politics) inauguration

Further reading

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

Italian

Noun

investiture f

1. plural of investitura

Latin

Participle

invest?t?re

1. vocative masculine singular of invest?t?rus