invidiosus

Latin

Etymology

invidia +‎ -ōsus

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /in.u̯i.diˈoː.sus/, [ɪnu̯ɪd̪iˈoːs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in.vi.diˈo.sus/, [iɱvid̪iˈɔːs̬us]

Adjective

invidiōsus (feminine invidiōsa, neuter invidiōsum, comparative invidiōsior, superlative invidiōsissimus, adverb invidiōsē); first/second-declension adjective

1. envious, invidious, hostile
2. enviable

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	invidiōsus	invidiōsa	invidiōsum		invidiōsī	invidiōsae	invidiōsa
genitive	invidiōsī	invidiōsae	invidiōsī		invidiōsōrum	invidiōsārum	invidiōsōrum
dative	invidiōsō	invidiōsae	invidiōsō		invidiōsīs
accusative	invidiōsum	invidiōsam	invidiōsum		invidiōsōs	invidiōsās	invidiōsa
ablative	invidiōsō	invidiōsā	invidiōsō		invidiōsīs
vocative	invidiōse	invidiōsa	invidiōsum		invidiōsī	invidiōsae	invidiōsa

Related terms

• invidia

Descendants

• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: envious, enviös, envieus
    • French: envieux
    • Norman: envieux
    • → Middle English: envious, envius, enwius, envyose, envyous, envyus
      • English: envious
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: envejós
  • Occitan: envejós
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: enveyosu
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: envejoso
    • Galician: envexoso
    • Portuguese: invejoso (/i/ via Latin influence)
• Borrowings:
  • → English: invidious
  • → Italian: invidioso
    • → Romanian: invidios
  • → Spanish: envidioso

References

• “invidiosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “invidiosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• invidiosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.