envides

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

Spanish

Verb

envides

  1. second-person singular present subjunctive of envidar