If you covet something, you strongly want to have it for yourself. She coveted his job so openly that conversations between them were tense. to have a very strong desire to have something that someone else has (coveitier, from coveitié , from cupiditas; CUPIDITY)
wish, long, or crave for (something, especially the property of another person); "She covets her sister's house"
coveter
Hyphenation
cov·e·ter
Pronunciation
Etymology
[ 'k&-v&t ] (verb.) 14th century. Middle English coveiten, from Old French coveitier, from coveitié desire, modification of Latin cupiditat-, cupiditas, from cupidus desirous, from cupere to desire.