convoiter

Signification (Anglais)

to covet, to desire

Concepts

convoiter

désirer

guigner

admirer

convoiter insatiablement

désirer profondément

s’adonner à

viser

chercher

vouloir

ambitionner

Étymologie (Anglais)

Inherited from Old French convoitier, altered from the older Old French covoitier, coveitier (by analogy with the prefix con-), from Vulgar Latin *cupidietāre, a verb based on *cupidietās, a modification of the Classical Latin cupiditās by analogy with words such as medietās.