Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗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 · Of, by, relating to, or belonging to an enemy.
To make an enemy of.
From Middle English enemy, enemye, enmy, borrowed from Old French enemi, anemi (Modern French ennemi), from Latin inimīcus, from in- (“not”) + amīcus (“friend”). Displaced Middle English fend (“enemy”), from Old English fēond (“enemy”), which survived into Modern English as fiend, but with a different meaning. Doublet of inimic.
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