Where does “enviable” come from?
enviable (French) comes from French envie, from Latin invidia, from Latin invidus, from Latin invideo, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
enviable (French): enviable
Definitions
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Ancestry of “enviable”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | envie | desire, lust, urge; appetite, craving; envy |
| 2 | Latin | invidia | envy, grudge, jealousy, prejudice, spite; an... |
| 3 | Latin | invidus | envious; hostile, inimical |
| 4 | Latin | invideo | I look askance or maliciously at, cast an evil... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 6 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |