different between strive vs envie

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?a?v/
• Rhymes: -a?v

Etymology 1

From Middle English striven (“to strive”), from Old French estriver (“to compete, quarrel”), from Frankish *str?ban (“to exert, make an effort”) from Proto-Germanic *str?ban?.

Verb

strive (third-person singular simple present strives, present participle striving, simple past strove or strived, past participle striven or strived or (nonstandard, colloquial) strove)

1. To try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.
2. To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest.
   • 1641, John Denham, On the Earl of Strafford's Tryal and Death

     Now private pity strove with public hate, / Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate.

3. To vie; to compete as a rival.

Usage notes

• This often occurs as a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
• The strong or irregular forms "strove" and "striven" are more commonly used in print than "strived".

Conjugation

Related terms

• strife

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

strive (plural strives)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of strife

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Rivets, Stiver, rivest, rivets, stiver, tivers, verist

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