The story
- Latin · borrowed frominvidiōsus
- English todayinvidious
Borrowed from Latin invidiōsus, from invidia (“envy, ill will”), from in- (“upon”) + videō (“to see”); the meaning developed from “look back at” to “look askance at” to “envy.” Doublet of envious, from Old French.
Words from the same roots
Latininvidiōsus all →
envious
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.