Envieとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvaɪ/, /ɛnˈvaɪ/

動詞

envie (三人称単数 現在形 envies, 現在分詞 envying, 過去形および過去分詞形 envied)

1. (obsolete) To vie; to emulate; to strive.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     In which all pleasures plenteously abownd,
     And none does others happinesse envye

語源 2

Borrowed from French envie (“urge, craving”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɑːnˈviː/

名詞

envie (複数形 envies)

1. (US, chiefly Louisiana) A strong desire or craving, especially for (a particular kind of) food.
   • 2009, Shane Hebert, The Ballad of Corey Robichaux, self-published, page 27,

     "Oooo, yum." Linda licked her lips. "I had an envie for that." An envie is an urge. She walked to the oven, opened it, and looked in.

   • 2018, Mark Vaughan, The Beacon 2: Battle of Nuclear Creek, self-published, unnumbered page,

     "I had an envie for something sweet so picked up King cakes for dessert. Bit of a lagniappe too, she gave us a dozen not ten."

   • 2020, Morris Ardoin, Stone Motel: Memoirs of a Cajun Boy, University Press of Mississippi, unnumbered page,

     "Sorry about that," he said to the man. "I'm by myself here these days. I had an envie for some Popeye's fried chicken, and dammit if you can't get that kinda thing off your mind until you just get up and go get it."

参照

• envie in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

アナグラム

• nieve