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Old Catalan
Etymology
From Latin invitus (“reluctant”), presumably with the ending changed to adverbial /-as/ (> /es/).
Adverb
envides
- hardly, barely
- c. 1360, Genebreda, Libre de consolació de Philosophia, 169
Per los boschatges son enteses les persones qui són axí siluestres e rudals, que envides se volen regir per negun...- Through the woods are heard the folk who are so wild and uncouth that they hardly wish to be ruled by anybody...
References
- “envides” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Spanish
Verb
envides
- second-person singular present subjunctive of envidar