Inventorie

Part of speech: noun, verb

Definitions

1. An archaic spelling of a detailed list of goods or possessions ; to draw up an itemized record of things held
2. A complete catalogue of items or stock, an older form of the word ; to compile a formal list of belongings or wares
3. An old spelling denoting an itemized list of property or merchandise ; to record and enumerate goods in a written account

Etymology: Medieval and early modern English writers would have recognised "inventorie" as an everyday word for a list of goods, and it is a near-doublet of "inventory", the form that later became standard. Both come from Latin "inventarium", a list of what has been found or came to hand, from "invenire", "to come upon, find". The Latin word itself was used for a catalogue of an estate's possessions, so the core sense has always been "things found and written down." The spelling "inventorie" is the older Middle English and Early Modern English shape, borrowed through Old French "inventoire" and carrying the French-style final "-e" and "-ie" endings that many English words of that period shared. As the language standardised, the spelling shifted toward the Latin-influenced "inventory", and "inventorie" faded from use.