Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To feel displeasure or hatred towards (someone) for their good fortune or possessions. · To resentfully or discontentedly desire (something someone else has that one lacks). · To have envious feelings (at). · To give (something) to (someone) grudgingly or reluctantly; to begrudge.
Resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions). · An object of envious notice or feeling. · Hatred, enmity, ill-feeling. · Emulation; rivalry.
Etymology tree Old French enviebor. Middle English envie English envy 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 and nīþ.
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