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convoiter

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French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French convoitier, altered from the older Old French covoitier, coveitier (by analogy with the prefix con-), from Vulgar Latin *cupidietāre, a verb based on *cupidietās, a modification of the Classical Latin cupiditās by analogy with words such as medietās.

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Verb

convoiter

  1. to covet, to desire
    Tu ne convoiteras pas la femme de ton prochain.
    Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife.
    • 1864, Phaedrus, translated by Levasseur and J. Chenu, Fables, sourced from :
      On perd justement son bien, quand on convoite celui d’autrui.
      He who covets what belongs to another, deservedly loses his own.

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