Noun: invidia
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension: First
Nominative
| Singular | invidia |
| Plural | invidiae |
Genitive
| Singular | invidiae |
| Plural | invidiārum |
Dative
| Singular | invidiae |
| Plural | invidiīs |
Accusative
| Singular | invidiam |
| Plural | invidiās |
Ablative
| Singular | invidiā |
| Plural | invidiīs |
Vocative
| Singular | invidia |
| Plural | invidiae |
Sample Sentences
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“[...] Sī tē Karthāginis arcēs,
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Phoenissam, Libycaeque aspectus dētinet urbis,
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quae tandem, Ausoniā Teucrōs cōnsīdere terrā,
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invidia est? [...]”
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“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?”
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(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”.) [29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.347–350]
Nouns inflected like invidia
scōria,
meschīta,
sewera,
zōnula,
ecclēsia,
concurrentia,
satira,
satura,
satyra,
sagīna,
sagēna,
sarīsa,
salīva,
salīna,
sampsa,
samara,
sacēna,
salvia,
sabīna,
sculna, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From invidus (“envious”) + -ia. Cognate with Proto-Slavic *zavistь (“envy”), Proto-Slavic *nenavistь (“hate”), Proto-Slavic *obvida (“resentment, indignation”).
2. Compare typologically dēspiciō (whence English despise).
Verbs referencing "invidia"
English Nouns
envy, Italian Nouns
invidia, Romanian Nouns
invidie, French Nouns
envie, Middle English Nouns
envie, Russian Nouns
зависть, Portuguese Nouns
inveja, Catalan Nouns
enveja, Old Portuguese Nouns
enveja, Galician Nouns
envexa, Italian Nouns
inveggia.
Translations