Vested
/ˈvɛstɪd/noun
Granted or secured in a legal or practical sense; also wearing clothes or having been clothed.
Did you know?‘Vested’ descends from Latin *vestis* meaning ‘garment,’ the same root that gave English *vest*, *invest*, and *divest*, so the language of power literally grew out of the language of clothing.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*wes-
“To clothe or dress”
Latin
Latin
vestis
“Garment, clothing”
Latin
Latin
vestire
“To dress, clothe”
Old French
Old French
vestir
“To clothe, dress”
Middle English
English
vesten
“To clothe; to put on garments”
Modern English
English
vested
“Clothed; secured or granted in a legal sense”