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)

  1. greed, avarice
  2. lust

Synonyms

Derived terms

Verb

cobiça

  1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of cobiçar
  2. 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
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