envie

See also: envié, envíe, and en vie

English

Etymology

See vie.

Verb

envie (third-person singular simple present envies, present participle envying, simple past and past participle envied)

1. (obsolete) To vie; to emulate; to strive.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “envie”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• nieve

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French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin invidia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.vi/

• Audio (France, Paris):

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• Homophones: envient, envies

Noun

envie f (plural envies)

1. desire, lust, urge
2. appetite, craving
3. envy
4. birthmark
5. hangnail

Verb

envie

1. first-person singular present indicative of envier
2. third-person singular present indicative of envier
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of envier
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of envier
5. second-person singular imperative of envier

Derived terms

• avoir envie de
• envier

Related terms

• envieux

Further reading

• “envie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• veine, veiné

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Galician

Verb

envie

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of enviar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of enviar

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• invie, anvie, enuye, envye

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French envie, from Latin invidia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛnˈviː(ə)/, /ˈɛnviː(ə)/

Noun

envie (plural envies)

1. ill-will, hatred, enmity, hostility; spite, malice; an instance of enmity

   Synonym: onde

   • 1378, John of Trevisa, transl., Polychronicon‎^[1], translation of original by Ranulf Higden, published 1876, page 287:

     ȝit þey haveþ so grete envie to þe Latyns þat þey haveþ wiþ drawe hem out of [þe] subieccioun and obedience of þe chirche of Rome

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2. envy, grudge; hostility; an instance of this feeling

   Synonym: onde

3. harm, injury

   Synonyms: harm, injurie

4. eagerness, enthusiasm

Related terms

• envien
• envious

Descendants

• English: envy

References

• “envie”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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Portuguese

Verb

envie