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invidia

See also: Invidia

Italian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /inˈvi.dja/
  • Rhymes: -idja
  • Hyphenation: in‧vì‧dia

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from Latin invidia (“envy”). Doublet of the obsolete inveggia, itself probably taken from Old Occitan.

Noun edit

invidia f (plural invidie)

  1. envy
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Descendants edit
  • → Friulian: invidie
  • → Ligurian: invìdia
  • → Neapolitan: 'mmìdia
  • → Romanian: invidie
  • → Sicilian: mmidia
  • → Venetian: invìdia

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb edit

invidia

  1. inflection of invidiare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Latin edit

Etymology edit

From invidus (“envious”), from invideō (“envy, grudge”). Cognate to Proto-Slavic *zavistь (“envy”), Proto-Slavic *nenavistь (“hate”), Proto-Slavic *obvida (“resentment, indignation”).

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Noun edit

invidia f (genitive invidiae); first declension

  1. envy, grudge, grudging, jealousy, prejudice, spite
  2. 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, [Dido] – a Phoenician – having looked upon this Libyan city, why then, [when we] Trojans [seek] to settle on Ausonian land, is [there any] 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 edit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative invidia invidiae
Genitive invidiae invidiārum
Dative invidiae invidiīs
Accusative invidiam invidiās
Ablative invidiā invidiīs
Vocative invidia invidiae

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Further reading edit

  • “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[1], 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 edit

Etymology edit

From invidie +‎ -a or Italian invidiare.

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Verb edit

a invidia (third-person singular present invidiază, past participle invidiat) 1st conj.

  1. to envy

Conjugation edit

    conjugation of invidia (first conjugation, -ez- infix)
infinitive a invidia
gerund invidiind
past participle invidiat
number singular plural
person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present invidiez invidiezi invidiază invidiem invidiați invidiază
imperfect invidiam invidiai invidia invidiam invidiați invidiau
simple perfect invidiai invidiași invidie invidiarăm invidiarăți invidiară
pluperfect invidiasem invidiaseși invidiase invidiaserăm invidiaserăți invidiaseră
subjunctive eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present să invidiez să invidiezi să invidieze să invidiem să invidiați să invidieze
imperative — tu — — voi —
affirmative invidiază invidiați
negative nu invidia nu invidiați

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Noun edit

invidia f (plural invidias)

  1. Obsolete spelling of envidia

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