Other forms: investors
An investor is a person who puts money in expecting a return. A private investor, attract investors, investor confidence.
The expectation of return is what separates investing from lending or giving, and the risk is what earns it. Retail investors are individuals and institutional investors are funds acting for many. Note invest, which comes from the Latin for clothing — investing money once meant dressing it in a new form.
1nouninvestorA person who puts money in expecting a return.
“The start-up is looking for an investor to help it open a second shop.”
investor is a person who commits money.
Latin
investio
Middle French
investir
English
invest
English, today
investor
Built from
From invest + -or. invest Borrowed from Middle French investir, from Latin investio. 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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA