envie
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
envie (third-person singular simple present envies, present participle envying, simple past and past participle envied)
- (obsolete) To vie; to emulate; to strive.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- In which all pleasures plenteously abownd,
And none does others happinesse envye
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from French envie (“urge, craving”). Doublet of envy.
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Noun edit
envie (plural envies)
- (US, chiefly Louisiana) A strong desire or craving, especially for (a particular kind of) food.
- 2009, Shane Hebert, The Ballad of Corey Robichaux, self-published, page 27:
- "Oooo, yum." Linda licked her lips. "I had an envie for that." An envie is an urge. She walked to the oven, opened it, and looked in.
- 2018, Mark Vaughan, The Beacon 2: Battle of Nuclear Creek, self-published, unnumbered page,
- "I had an envie for something sweet so picked up King cakes for dessert. Bit of a lagniappe too, she gave us a dozen not ten."
- 2020, Morris Ardoin, Stone Motel: Memoirs of a Cajun Boy, University Press of Mississippi, unnumbered page:
- "Sorry about that," he said to the man. "I'm by myself here these days. I had an envie for some Popeye's fried chicken, and dammit if you can't get that kinda thing off your mind until you just get up and go get it."
References edit
- “envie”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French enveie (with /ei̯/ modified to /i/ to match the verb envier), from Latin invidia.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
envie f (plural envies)
- desire, lust, urge
- appetite, craving
- envy
- Synonym: convoitise
- birthmark
- Synonyms: tache de naissance, tache de vin
- hangnail
- Synonym: petite peau
Verb edit
envie
- inflection of envier:
Derived terms edit
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Further reading edit
- “envie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “ĭnvĭdĭa”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 799
Anagrams edit
Galician edit
Verb edit
envie
- (reintegrationist norm) inflection of enviar:
Louisiana Creole edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
envie
- to desire
References edit
- Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old French envie, from Latin invidia.
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Noun edit
envie (plural envies)
- 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
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- envy, grudge; hostility; an instance of this feeling
- Synonym: onde
- harm, injury
- eagerness, enthusiasm
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Descendants edit
- English: envy
References edit
- “envīe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Portuguese edit
Verb edit
envie
- inflection of enviar: