For more than five years, Staten Island Borough President James Oddo fought to keep a century-old Jesuit retreat safe from builders’ bulldozers.

Mount Manresa was a pocket of peace in a hard-nosed, burgeoning borough, a hill of old-growth forest just a stone’s throw from the Staten Island Expressway. But its 15 acres, one of the largest undeveloped private parcels in the entire city, were too valuable to be ignored by developers.

In 2010, Oddo, then a city councilman, tried to get the land rezoned to prevent its disappearance.

When it went on the market in 2012, he lobbied the city to turn it into a park or a school campus.

When it was sold to a condo developer for $15 million in 2013, he joined protests with neighborhood activists. And as borough president in 2014, he got the Buildings Department to slow work on the site.

Despite the fiery Republican’s efforts, the old brick buildings were razed and the land was clear-cut down to the dirt. Crews felled hundreds of trees, some of them 400 years old.

Still, a bitter Oddo balked. He dragged his feet for nearly a year on the issuing of building numbers, the final step necessary for construction to begin.

Assigning house numbers is an obscure duty of the city’s borough presidents, one of the few actual powers they have retained since the position was declawed by the revised City Charter in 1990.

The developers sued, and in November, a judge ordered Oddo to issue the numbers. He did so.

But he also got his revenge: He named the streets.

Welcome Avidita Place, Cupidity Drive and Fourberie Lane to the official city map.

For those not up on their SAT words, avidita is Italian for “greed,” cupidity means “lust for wealth,” and fourberie is French for “deceit.”

Usually, a borough’s Topographical Division, an office controlled by the Beep, goes along with a builder’s street-name suggestions. Not this time.

The condo project’s developers, Savo Brothers, offered nine idyllic monikers — names like Rabbit Ridge Road and Willow Reach Lane — for their three new streets. Staten Island’s topographic bureau rejected all of them.

The Beep’s caustic replacement names sparked a howl of protest from the builder’s lawyers and bounced the matter right back into state Supreme Court on Thursday.

“Apparently, the developers of the Mount Manresa project like litigation,” Oddo wrote in an acidic post on Staten Island’s official Facebook page.

In it, Oddo revealed that every one of the developer’s submissions made him see red — and one of them, Timber Lane, really ticked him off.

“That’s right, Timber Lane, as in the word of warning that is popularly known to be yelled out to warn folks that a tree is being cut down,” he fumed.

“This was a clear attempt to stick it to the community once again by reminding them every day of what they did to the property,” he wrote.

The Beep’s fans on social media gleefully jumped in on the wordplay with their own contributions: Mammon Avenue, Thieves Cove, Upyours Esplanade, Landgrab Road.

In court documents, Oddo’s land-use director, Robert E. Englert, claimed that the names were replaced simply because the developer’s submissions were too similar to existing Staten Island streets and could confuse first responders in an emergency. Others were too long to fit on a street sign, Englert maintained.

And several names, including “Lazy Bird Lane” and “Turtle Drive,” were purportedly rejected for insensitivity.

Apparently, the developers of the Mount Manresa project like litigation. - James Oddo

“The Topographical Bureau was concerned that naming streets after wildlife would unnecessarily cause further tension,” he wrote.

Englert praised Oddo’s picks, gushing that Cupidity Drive, Fourberie Lane, and Avidita Place “are distinctive, and, therefore, unlikely to cause confusion among the public.”

Distinctive in all the wrong ways, argued Richard Leland, an attorney for Savo Brothers.

“This will have a severely adverse effect on the marketability of my client’s properties,” he said. “The borough president is behaving in a vindictive and I think vengeful manner.”

“This is about more than just street names,” said Barbara Sanchez of the Committee to Save Mount Manresa. “This is about a community getting support from our borough president.”

The judge hearing the case — who reportedly remarked that perhaps Oddo’s street names were too obscure for Staten Islanders to understand — has yet to rule.