cobiça

Portuguese

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /koˈbi.sɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /koˈbi.sa/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /kuˈbi.sɐ/ [kuˈβi.sɐ]

  • Hyphenation: co‧bi‧ça

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cobiiça, from Late Latin *cupiditia, from Latin cupiditātem (“desire, greed”). Cognate with Galician cobiza and Spanish codicia.

Noun

cobiça f (plural cobiças)

  1. greed, avarice
    Synonyms: ganância, avareza, sofreguidão
  2. lust
    Synonym: luxúria
Derived terms

Verb

cobiça

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

Further reading
  • “cobiça” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
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