Other forms: investitures
An investiture is the ceremony of granting somebody an office or honour. A royal investiture, attend the investiture, the investiture ceremony.
In Britain it is where medals are actually handed over, months after the honours list is published. The word means a clothing, from the robes a new officeholder was dressed in, which is where invest comes from too.
1nouninvestitureThe ceremony of granting somebody an office or honour.
“The new bishop's investiture took place in the cathedral, with music and prayers.”
investiture is a ceremony.
Medieval Latin investitura comes from investire, to clothe, from vestis, a garment.
Medieval Latin
investītūra
Middle French
investiture
English, today
investiture
Built from
From Middle French investiture, from Medieval Latin investītūra, from investīre (“to clothe”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA