cobiça

From Old Portuguese cobiiça, from Late Latin *cupiditia, from Latin cupiditās, cupiditātis (“desire, greed”).

Cognate with Galician cobiza and Spanish codicia.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ku.ˈβi.sɐ/
• Hyphenation: co‧bi‧ça

cobiça f (plural cobiças)

1. greed, avarice
2. lust

• (greed): avareza

• cobiçar

• Cupido

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

• cobiça in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913