invidia

• IPA^(key): /inˈvi.dja/
• Rhymes: -idja
• Hyphenation: in‧vì‧dia

Borrowed from Latin invidia (“envy”). Doublet of the obsolete inveggia, itself probably taken from Old Occitan.

invidia f (plural invidie)

1. envy

• invidiabile
• invidiare
• invidioso
• invido

• → Friulian: invidie
• → Ligurian: invìdia
• → Neapolitan: 'mmìdia
• → Romanian: invidie
• → Sicilian: mmìdia, mmija
• → Venetan: invìdia

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

invidia

1. inflection of invidiare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• sette peccati capitali

• divinai, in via di, indivia

From invidus (“envious”), from invideō (“envy, grudge”). Cognate to Proto-Slavic *zavistь (“envy”), Proto-Slavic *nenavistь (“hate”), Proto-Slavic *obvida (“resentment, indignation”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /inˈu̯i.di.a/, [ɪnˈu̯ɪd̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈvi.di.a/, [iɱˈviːd̪iä]

invidia f (genitive invidiae); first declension

1. envy, grudge, grudging, jealousy, prejudice, spite
2. odium, unpopularity, dislike, hatred, infamy, malice, resentment, ill-will
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.347–350:

     “[...] Sī tē Karthāginis arcēs,
     Phoenissam, Libycaeque aspectus dētinet urbis,
     quae tandem, Ausoniā Teucrōs cōnsīdere terrā,
     invidia est? [...]”

     “If the towers of Carthage detain you, [Dido] – a Phoenician – having looked upon this Libyan city, why then, [when we] Trojans [seek] to settle on Ausonian land, is [there any] resentment?”
     (Translations – Mackail, 1885: “what wrong is it”; Knight, 1956: “what is the objection”; Mandelbaum, 1971: “why … begrudge”; Ahl, 2007: “why … evil your eye”; Ruden, 2021: “how can you resent”.)

First-declension noun.

• invidiōsus

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “ĭnvĭdĭa”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 4: G H I, page 799

• “invidia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “invidia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• invidia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• invidia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be hated by some one: odio, invidiae esse alicui
    
  • to be hated by some one: in invidia esse alicui
    
  • to be detested: invidia flagrare, premi
    
  • to incur a person's hatred: in odium, in invidiam venire alicui
    
  • to incur a person's hatred: invidiam colligere (aliqua re)
    
  • to make a person odious, unpopular: in invidiam, odium (alicuius) vocare aliquem
    
  • to make a person odious, unpopular: in invidiam adducere aliquem
    
  • to make a person odious, unpopular: invidiam alicui conflare (Catil. 1. 9. 23)
    
  • to make a person odious, unpopular: invidiam, odium ex-, concitare alicui, in aliquem
    
  • to be consumed with hatred: odio or invidia alicuius ardere
    
  • to profit by the unpopularity of the senate to gain influence oneself: crescere ex invidia senatoria
    
  • unpopularity: invidia
    
  • the feeling against the dictator: invidia dictatoria (Liv. 22. 26)
    
  • to use some one's unpopularity as a means of making oneself popular: ex invidia alicuius auram popularem petere (Liv. 22. 26)
    
• “invidia”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

From invidie +‎ -a or Italian invidiare.

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a invidia (third-person singular present invidiază, past participle invidiat) 1st conj.

1. to envy

invidia f (plural invidias)

1. Obsolete spelling of envidia.

• “invidia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28