The story
- Latin · derived fromcupiditas
- Old French · derived fromcovoitier
- Middle English · inherited fromcoveten
- English todaycovet
From Middle English coveten, coveiten, coveyten, from Old French covoitier (modern French convoiter), from covoitié (“desire”), presumably modified from Latin cupiditas.
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.