Translation
to invent
Word origin
From Latin invenire ('to come upon, to find'), from in ('on') and venire ('to come'). Finding and inventing were the same act to the Romans, which is why an inventory is a list of what you found.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- invenire
- English cognates
- invent, inventory, invention
Examples
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Who invented the telephone?
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He invented a machine for washing clothes.
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The children invented a new language.
Making something that did not exist. Finding something that did is , and the pair is worth keeping straight: Zamenhof Esperanto, but nobody it. The noun is invento and the person an o.
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