verb/kɔ̃.vwa.te/
to covet, to desire
“Tu ne convoiteras pas la femme de ton prochain.” — Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife.
Related: convoiteur, convoiteux, convoitise
Inherited from Old French convoitier, altered from the older Old French covoitier, coveitier (by analogy with the prefix con-), from Vulgar Latin *cupidietāre, a verb based on *cupidietās, a modification of the Classical Latin cupiditās by analogy with words such as medietās.