enemy
English
/ˈɛnəmi/
noun
Definitions
- Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else.
- A hostile force or nation; a fighting member of such a force or nation.
- Something harmful or threatening to another
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English enemy borrowed from Old French enemi derived from Latin inimīcus (enemy, inimical, unfriendly, hostile).
Origin
Latin
inimīcus
Gloss
enemy, inimical, unfriendly, hostile
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
敵
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- archenemy English
- enemyhood English
- enemylike English
- enemyness English
- enemyship English
- enemyslash English
- fiend English
- slash English
- *inimīcitātem, *inimicitas, *inimīcitās Latin
- inimicitia Latin
- inimīcus Latin
- nemico Italian
- ennemi French
- *fijandz Proto-Germanic
- feondlic Old English
- feondræden Old English
- feondscipe Old English
- fēond Old English
- enemy Middle English
- feend Middle English
- feendly Middle English
- fond Middle English
- enemi Old French
- inamic Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- enn'mîn Norman
- armik Albanian
- ennemy Middle French
- ẽemigo Old Portuguese
- inimi Romansh
- enemigu Asturian
- nimì Friulian
- enemic Old Occitan
- nemîgo Ligurian
- nemaic Dalmatian
- nemmìco Neapolitan