Polyglot Dictionary

cobiça

/koˈbisɐ/

a noun B2

o (masc.) a (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Common Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
as cobiças

Meaning

  1. greed

    • A cobiça o destruiu.

      Greed destroyed him.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

avareza

avareza is more about miserliness or stinginess, hoarding; cobiça is more about coveting something specific, wanting what someone else has — both mean "greed."

Similar in other languages

German

Habgier

Habgier is the German word for the same thing — both mean "greed."

Spanish

avaricia

avaricia is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "greed."

Spanish

codicia

codicia is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "greed."

Practice

1 What does cobiça mean?

2 Fill the gap: A ___ o destruiu.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches cobiça?

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