# envie
## English
### Etymology 1

From en- +‎ vie.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɪnˈvaɪ/, /ɛnˈvaɪ/

#### Verb

envie (third-person singular simple present envies, present participle envying, simple past and past participle envied)
* (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

### Etymology 2

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɑːnˈviː/

#### Noun

envie (plural envies)
* (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."

### References

* “envie”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* nieve

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French enveie (with /ei̯/ modified to /i/ to match the verb envier), from Latin invidia.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɑ̃.vi/
* Audio (Paris):(file)
* Homophones: envient, envies

### Noun

envie f (plural envies)
* desire, lust, urge
* appetite, craving
* envy
    Synonym: convoitise
* birthmark
    Synonyms: tache de naissance, tache de vin
* hangnail
    Synonym: petite peau

### Verb

envie
* inflection of envier:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

#### Derived terms

* avoir envie
* avoir envie de
* envier

#### Related terms

* envieux

### Further reading

* “envie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “ĭnvĭdĭa”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 4: G H I, page 799

### Anagrams

* veine, veiné

## Galician
### Verb

envie
* (reintegrationist norm) inflection of enviar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Louisiana Creole
### Etymology

From French envie (“desire”).

### Verb

envie
* to desire

### References

* Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* anvie, envi, envy, envye, invie

### Etymology

Borrowed from Old French envie, from Latin invidia.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɛnˈviː(ə)/, /ˈɛnviː(ə)/

### Noun

envie (plural envies)
* 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)
* envy, grudge; hostility; an instance of this feeling
    Synonym: onde
* harm, injury
    Synonyms: harm, injurie
* eagerness, enthusiasm

#### Related terms

* envien
* envious

#### Descendants

* English: envy

### References

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

## Portuguese
### Verb

envie
* inflection of enviar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative