Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

absit invidia

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ab-sit in-vidia
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

phrase

Literally, "may envy be lacking (from my words)".

Example Sentences

"1656 (N.S.), George Davenport, The Letters of George Davenport, 1651-1677 2011 publication I long as old Eli did (verbo absit invidia) to hear what is become of the ark; but fear I shall not hear what I desire, and my answer shall be with the daughter in law translata est gloria Dei de—. Comment: "Translata est gloria Dei de ..." is a slight paraphrase from 1 Samuel 4:22."
"What most evidently prevailed, absit invidia, and what betrayed her into all the Chesterfieldian indecorums of laughter, was his addressing her in Irish."
"I have done with the Oxford Bacons : only let me add, that those of Cambridge, father and son, Nicholas and Francis, the one of Bene't, and the other of Trinity-College, do hold (absit invidia ! ) the scales of desert, even against all of their name in all of the world besides."

Etymology

From Latin. As found, for example, in Livy, Ab Urbe Condita Book IX, Chapter 19, line 15.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: -

Inflected Forms

absit invidia verbo (alternative) verbo absit invidia (alternative)

Questions

What does absit invidia mean?: Literally, "may envy be lacking (from my words)".
Where does absit invidia come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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