Translation
to envy
Word origin
From French envier, from Latin invidere, made of in- ('upon') and videre ('to see'). To envy was literally to look hard at someone, and the ill will was already in the look.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- invidere
- English cognates
- envy, invidious, vision
Examples
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I do not envy him.
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She envied her neighbour's new house.
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Do not envy what you do not know.
The - at the front is Latin in- frozen inside a borrowed root, not the Esperanto preposition , so do not read as 'to see into'. Note also that takes a direct object: you envy the person or the thing, , not . The adjective covers the sharper, more possessive feeling.
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