envides
Old Catalan
Etymology
From Latin invitus (“reluctant”), presumably with the ending changed to adverbial /-as/ (> /es/).
Adverb
envides
- 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...
- c. 1360, Genebreda, Libre de consolació de Philosophia, 169
References
- Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “envides”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
Spanish
Verb
envides
- second-person singular present subjunctive of envidar