convoiter

Nghĩa

to covet, to desire

Từ nguyên

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.