different between ambition vs envie

English

Etymology

From Middle English ambicion, from Old French ambition, from Latin ambiti? (“ambition, a striving for favor, literally 'a going around', especially of candidates for office in Rome soliciting votes”), from ambi? (“I go around, solicit votes”). See ambient, issue.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /æm?b?.??n/

Noun

ambition (countable and uncountable, plural ambitions)

1. (uncountable, countable) Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or literary fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people.
   • 1756, Edmund Burke, A Vindication of Natural Society

     the pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres

2. (countable) An object of an ardent desire.

3. A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.
4. (uncountable) A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.
5. (obsolete) The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:ambition.

Related terms

• ambience
• ambient
• ambit
• ambitious
• ambitionist

Translations

Verb

ambition (third-person singular simple present ambitions, present participle ambitioning, simple past and past participle ambitioned)

1. To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
   • 1746, C Turnbull, The Histories Of Marcus Junianus Justinus

     Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage.

Further reading

• ambition in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ambition in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Danish

Noun

ambition c

1. ambition

Declension

Related terms

• ambitiøs

Further reading

• “ambition” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “ambition” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Finnish

Noun

ambition

1. Genitive singular form of ambitio.

French

Etymology

From Latin ambiti?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.bi.sj??/

Noun

ambition f (plural ambitions)

1. ambition (feeling)

Related terms

• ambitieux
• ambitionner

Further reading

• “ambition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

ambition c

1. en ambition

Declension

Related terms

• ambitiös

English

Etymology

en- +? vie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?va?/, /?n?va?/

Verb

envie (third-person singular simple present envies, present participle envying, simple past and past participle envied)

1. (obsolete) To vie; to emulate; to strive.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

Anagrams

• nieve

French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin invidia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.vi/
• Homophones: envient, envies

Noun

envie f (plural envies)

1. desire, lust, urge
2. appetite, craving
3. envy
4. birthmark
5. hangnail

Verb

envie

1. first-person singular present indicative of envier
2. third-person singular present indicative of envier
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of envier
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of envier
5. second-person singular imperative of envier

Derived terms

Related terms

• envieux

Further reading

• “envie” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• veine, veiné

Galician

Verb

envie

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of enviar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of enviar

Louisiana Creole French

Etymology

From French envie (“desire”).

Verb

envie

1. to desire

References

• Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

Middle English

Alternative forms

• invie, anvie, enuye, envye

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French envie, from Latin invidia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?vi?(?)/, /??nvi?(?)/

Noun

envie (plural envies)

1. ill-will, hatred, enmity, hostility; spite, malice; an instance of enmity

   Synonym: onde
2. envy, grudge; hostility; an instance of this feeling

   Synonym: onde

3. harm, injury

   Synonyms: harm, injurie

4. eagerness, enthusiasm

Related terms

• envien
• envious

Descendants

• English: envy

References

• “env?e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Portuguese

Verb

envie

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of enviar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of enviar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of enviar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of enviar