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by ButlerianJihad 2 days ago
"invidia" is an Italian word, so it does survive in living languages.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/invidia

"Nvidia" as "officially" pronounced in English is not significantly different from some of those pronunciations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia

And the founders seemed to be well aware of the existing usage when they chose the name.