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===Etymology===
===Etymology===
Borrowed from {{bor|it|pro|[[enveja]], [[enveia]]}}, from {{der|it|la|invidia}}.
Borrowed from {{bor|it|pro|enveja}}, {{m|pro|enveia}}, from {{der|it|la|invidia}}.


===Pronunciation===
===Pronunciation===

Revision as of 18:28, 25 March 2019

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan enveja, enveia, from Latin invidia.

Pronunciation

Noun

inveggia f (plural invegge)

  1. (deprecated template usage) (obsolete) envy
    Synonym: invidia
    • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Purgatorio [The Divine Comedy: Purgatory] (paperback), Bompiani, published 2001, Canto VI, pages 83–84, lines 16–21:
      Quivi pregava con le mani sporte ¶ Federigo Novello, e quel da Pisa ¶ che fé parer lo buon Marzucco forte. ¶ Vidi conte Orso e l’anima divisa ¶ dal corpo suo per astio e per inveggia, ¶ com’ e’ dicea, non per colpa commisa
      There was imploring with his hands outstretched Frederick Novello, and that one of Pisa who made the good Marzucco seem so strong. I saw Count Orso; and the soul divided by hatred and by envy from its body, as it declared, and not for crime committed

Derived terms

References

  • inveggia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana