envieとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ɪnˈvaɪ/, /ɛnˈvaɪ/
• 韻: -aɪ

動詞

envie (third-person singular simple present envies, present participle envying, simple past and past participle 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”). Doublet of envy.

発音

• IPA: /ɑːnˈviː/
• 韻: -iː

名詞

envie (plural 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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• nieve

語源

Borrowed from Old French envie, from Latin invidia.

発音

• IPA: /ɛnˈviː(ə)/, /ˈɛnviː(ə)/

名詞

envie (plural envies)

1. ill-will, hatred, enmity, hostility; spite, malice; an instance of enmity

   Synonym: onde

   • 1378, John of Trevisa, transl., Polychronicon‎, translation of original by Ranulf Higden, published 1876, page 287:

     ȝit þey haveþ so grete envie to þe Latyns þat þey haveþ wiþ drawe hem out of [þe] subieccioun and obedience of þe chirche of Rome

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. envy, grudge; hostility; an instance of this feeling

   Synonym: onde

3. harm, injury

   Synonyms: harm, injurie

4. eagerness, enthusiasm

関連する語

• envien
• envious

派生した語

• English: envy

参照

• “envīe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.