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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /inˈvi.dja/
- Rhymes: -idja
- Hyphenation: in‧vì‧dia
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin invidia (“envy”). Doublet of the obsolete inveggia, itself probably taken from Old Occitan.
Noun
invidia f (plural invidie)
- envy
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
invidia
- inflection of invidiare:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
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Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From invidus (“envious”), from invideō (“envy, grudge”). Cognate to Proto-Slavic *zavistь (“envy”), Proto-Slavic *nenavistь (“hate”), Proto-Slavic *obvida (“resentment, indignation”).
Pronunciation
Noun
invidia f (genitive invidiae); first declension
- envy, grudge, grudging, jealousy, prejudice, spite
- odium, unpopularity, dislike, hatred, infamy, malice, resentment, ill-will
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.347–350:
- “ Sī tē Karthāginis arcēs,
Phoenissam, Libycaeque aspectus dētinet urbis,
quae tandem, Ausoniā Teucrōs cōnsīdere terrā,
invidia est? ”- “If the towers of Carthage detain you, – a Phoenician – having looked upon this Libyan city, why then, Trojans to settle on Ausonian land, is resentment?”
(Translations – Mackail, 1885: “what wrong is it”; Knight, 1956: “what is the objection”; Mandelbaum, 1971: “why … begrudge”; Ahl, 2007: “why … evil your eye”; Ruden, 2021: “how can you resent”.)
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Gallo-Romance:
- Occitano-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Borrowings:
References
Further reading
- “invidia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “invidia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- invidia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- invidia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be hated by some one: odio, invidiae esse alicui
- to be hated by some one: in invidia esse alicui
- to be detested: invidia flagrare, premi
- to incur a person's hatred: in odium, in invidiam venire alicui
- to incur a person's hatred: invidiam colligere (aliqua re)
- to make a person odious, unpopular: in invidiam, odium (alicuius) vocare aliquem
- to make a person odious, unpopular: in invidiam adducere aliquem
- to make a person odious, unpopular: invidiam alicui conflare (Catil. 1. 9. 23)
- to make a person odious, unpopular: invidiam, odium ex-, concitare alicui, in aliquem
- to be consumed with hatred: odio or invidia alicuius ardere
- to profit by the unpopularity of the senate to gain influence oneself: crescere ex invidia senatoria
- unpopularity: invidia
- the feeling against the dictator: invidia dictatoria (Liv. 22. 26)
- to use some one's unpopularity as a means of making oneself popular: ex invidia alicuius auram popularem petere (Liv. 22. 26)
- “invidia”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
Romanian
Etymology
From invidie + -a or Italian invidiare.
Pronunciation
Verb
a invidia (third-person singular present invidiază, past participle invidiat) 1st conj.
- to envy
Conjugation
Spanish
Noun
invidia f (plural invidias)
- Obsolete spelling of envidia.
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