Noun: inveggia
Gender: f
Hyphenation: in‧vég‧gia
| Singular f | inveggia |
| Plural f | invegge |
Sample Sentences
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Quivi pregava con le mani sporte ¶ Federigo Novello, e quel da Pisa ¶ che fé parer lo buon Marzucco forte. ¶ Vidi conte Orso e l’anima divisa ¶ dal corpo suo per astio e per inveggia, ¶ com’ e’ dicea, non per colpa commisa (There was imploring with his hands outstretched Frederick Novello, and that one of Pisa who made the good Marzucco seem so strong. I saw Count Orso; and the soul divided by hatred and by envy from its body, as it declared, and not for crime committed) [1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Purgatorio [The Divine Comedy: Purgatory] (paperback), Bompiani, published 2001, Canto VI, pages 83–84, lines 16–21:]
Nouns inflected like inveggia
seccia,
seggia,
paraliturgia,
sargia,
cappellaccia,
alzataccia,
stomatorragia,
viscaccia,
giliegia,
termometallurgia,
paniscia,
paniccia,
stregaccia,
controdenuncia,
panaccia,
puleggia,
praticaccia,
saccoccia,
urofagia,
merdaccia, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Occitan enveja, from Latin invidia. Cognate with Sicilian mmija. See: Latin Nouns '
invidia'.
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