Meaning
invejar
- to envy
- to begrudge
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/ĩˈvɛ.ʒɐ/
Etymology
In summary
From an alteration of Old Galician-Portuguese enveja, from Latin invidia. Compare Galician envexa, Catalan and Occitan enveja and French envie. Doublet of invídia, a learned borrowing with the same meaning.
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