envy

Significat (anglès)

Noun

1. Resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions).
2. An object of envious notice or feeling.
3. (obsolete) Hatred, enmity, ill-feeling.
4. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1
5. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1:
   But let me tell the World,
   If he out-liue the enuie of this day,
   England did neuer owe so sweet a hope,
   So much misconstrued in his Wantonnesse.
6. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1:
   But let me tell the World,
   If he out-liue the enuie of this day,
   England did neuer owe so sweet a hope,
   So much misconstrued in his Wantonnesse.
7. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1:
   But let me tell the World,
   If he out-liue the enuie of this day,
   England did neuer owe so sweet a hope,
   So much misconstrued in his Wantonnesse.
8. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1:
   But let me tell the World,
   If he out-liue the enuie of this day,
   England did neuer owe so sweet a hope,
   So much misconstrued in his Wantonnesse.
9. (obsolete) Emulation; rivalry.
10. (obsolete) Public odium; ill repute.
11. A red-skinned variety of eating apple.

Verb

1. To feel displeasure or hatred towards (someone) for their good fortune or possessions.
2. To resentfully or discontentedly desire (something someone else has that one lacks).
3. (obsolete) To have envious feelings (at).
4. (obsolete) To give (something) to (someone) grudgingly or reluctantly; to begrudge.
5. (obsolete) To show malice or ill will; to rail.
6. (obsolete) To do harm to; to injure; to disparage.
7. (obsolete) To hate.
8. (obsolete) To emulate.

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈɛnvi/

Etimologia (anglès)

From Middle English envie, from Old French envie, from Latin invidia (“envy”), from invidere (“to look at with malice”), from in- (“on, upon”) + videre (“to look, see”). Doublet of envie. Cognate to Proto-Slavic *zavistь (“envy”).
Displaced native Old English æfest.

Sents

And also by unhappiness , envy , and jealousy .