DictionaryRoot: videre
Latin
videre
see
Forms
- vid-
- vis- — Latin stem associated with the form meaning ‘seen.’
Origin
Reconstructed Proto-Indo-European *weid-, ‘see.’
Note
Seeing supplied a widespread metaphor for knowing and understanding.
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noun / verb
envy
EN-vee/ˈenvi/
A resentful desire for what someone else has.
Etymology
The image is looking upon someone with malice: the ancestral verb meant casting an evil eye before it meant envying. That hostile gaze connects seeing another person's advantages with resenting them.
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- evident
- improvisation
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- provideSupply what is needed
- providedOn condition
- providedEquipped with necessities
- providencePreparation for future needs
- providenceDivine care
- provident
- provisionLegal clause
- provisionSupplying what is needed
- proviso
- purveyor
- purview
- review
- reviseCorrecting or updating
- reviseStudying again
- revision
- revue
- supervise
- supervision
- supervisor
- survey
- surveyor
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- visage
- visibility
- visible
- vision