invidia

See also: Invidia

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Noun

invidia f (plural invidie)

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

invidia

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

See also

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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

First-declension noun.

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

Derived terms

Descendants

References

Further reading

  • 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, 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

Etymology

From invidie + -a or Italian invidiare.

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Verb

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

  1. to envy

Conjugation

Spanish

Noun

invidia f (plural invidias)

  1. Obsolete spelling of envidia

Further reading

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