envides

Old Catalan

Etymology

From Latin invitus (“reluctant”), presumably with the ending changed to adverbial /-as/ (> /es/).

Adverb

envides

1. hardly, barely
   • c. 1360, Genebreda, Libre de consolació de Philosophia, 169

     Per los boschatges son enteses les persones qui són axí siluestres e rudals, que envides se volen regir per negun...

     Through the woods are heard the folk who are so wild and uncouth that they hardly wish to be ruled by anybody...

References

• “envides” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Spanish

Verb

envides

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of envidar