cobiça
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese cobiiça, from Late Latin *cupiditia, from Latin cupiditās, cupiditātis (“desire, greed”).
Cognate with Galician cobiza and Spanish codicia.
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ku.ˈβi.sɐ/
- Hyphenation: co‧bi‧ça
Noun
cobiça f (plural cobiças)
- greed, avarice
- lust
Synonyms
- (greed): avareza
Derived terms
- cobiçar
Related terms
- Cupido
Verb
cobiça
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of cobiçar
- second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of cobiçar
Further reading
- cobiça in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913