Save Gender Feminine & Masculine Usage Popular Culture, Literature Pronounced Pron. N-V(Popular Culture) [key] Other Forms FormsEnvie Meaning & History Middle English (also in the sense ‘hostility, enmity’) from Old French envie (noun), envier (verb), from Latin invidia, from invidere ‘regard maliciously, grudge’, from in- ‘into’ + videre ‘to see’.