cobiça

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈbi.sɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈbi.sɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈbi.sa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuˈbi.sɐ/ [kuˈβi.sɐ]

• Hyphenation: co‧bi‧ça

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cobiiça, from Late Latin *cupiditia, from Latin cupiditātem (“desire, greed”). Cognate with Galician cobiza and Spanish codicia.

Noun

cobiça f (plural cobiças)

1. greed, avarice

   Synonyms: ganância, avareza, sofreguidão

2. lust

   Synonym: luxúria

Derived terms

• cobiçar

 

Related terms

• Cupido
• cúpido

 

Etymology 2

Verb

cobiça

1. inflection of cobiçar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “cobiça” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913