inveggia
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old Occitan enveja, from Latin invidia.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
inveggia f (plural invegge)
- (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 edit
References edit
- inveggia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana