different between summons vs invitation

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?.m?nz/

Etymology 1

From Middle English somouns (“order or command to do something”), borrowed from Old French sumunce (modern French semonce), from Vulgar Latin *summonsa, a noun use of the feminine past participle of summone?, summon?re (“to summon”).

Noun

summons (plural summonses)

1. A call to do something, especially to come.
   • 1818, Henry Hallam, View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages

     special summonses by the king

   • 1661, John Fell, The Life of the Most Learned, Reverend and Pious Dr. H. Hammond

     this summons […] unfit either to dispute or disobey

   • 1630, John Hayward, The Life and Raigne of King Edward VI

     He sent to summon the seditious, and to offer pardon […] ; but neither summons nor pardon was any thing regarded.

2. (law) A notice summoning someone to appear in court, as a defendant, juror or witness.
3. (military) A demand for surrender.

Descendants

• ? Bengali: ??? (?ômôn)
• ? Cebuano: sumon
• ? Malay: saman
  • ? English: saman

Translations

Verb

summons (third-person singular simple present summonses, present participle summonsing, simple past and past participle summonsed)

1. (transitive) To serve someone with a summons. [17th C.]

See also

• summons on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Summons in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

summons

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of summon

Anagrams

• musmons

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French invitation, from Latin invitatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n.v??te?.??n/, /?n.v??te?.?n?/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

invitation (countable and uncountable, plural invitations)

1. The act of inviting; solicitation; the requesting of a person's company.

   • At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.

2. A document or verbal message conveying an invitation.

   We need to print off fifty invitations for the party.

3. Allurement; enticement.
4. (fencing) A line that is intentionally left open to encourage the opponent to attack.
5. (Christianity) The brief exhortation introducing the confession in the Anglican communion-office.
6. (bridge) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
   • 2001, Matthew Granovetter, Pamela Granovetter, The Best of Bridge Today Digest (page 113)

     I assume also that opener would have shown no interest in slam by either bidding 4NT or 50 after the slam invitation of 46.

   • 2011, Gerard Cohen, Bridge Is a Conversation: Part I: the Auction (page 71)

     To any other invitation made by the captain, acceptance or refusal of the invitation is exclusively a question of points within the range advertised in the opening statement, and the invitation is always in the last called suit.

Synonyms

• (solicitation): invitement (obsolete)

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin invitatio, invitationem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.vi.ta.sj??/

Noun

invitation f (plural invitations)

1. invitation

Related terms

• inviter

Further reading

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

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in.vi.ta?tsjon/

Noun

invitation (plural invitationes)

1. invitation