envie – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of envie

Noun: envie
Sg.envie
Pl.envies

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • 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 [1378, John of Trevisa, transl., Polychronicon, translation of original by Ranulf Higden, published 1876, page 287:]

Nouns inflected like envie

schimeringe, synger, serche, sengle, snoute, saucer, sauter, sapour, saphir, sachel, sculle, scrape, scrowe, scisme, sclate, schyfe, schyve, schole, schere, schave, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French envie, from Latin invidia. See: Latin Nouns 'invidia'.

Verbs referencing "envie"

English Nouns envy.

Translations