foe

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /fəʊ/    美 /foʊ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An enemy.
    — And a mans foes ſhalbe they of his owne houſhold.
  2. A unit of energy equal to 10⁴⁴ joules.
形容词 adj.
  1. Hostile. obsolete
    — he, I say, could passe into Affrike onely with two simple ships or small barkes, to commit himselfe in a strange and foe countrie, to engage his person, under the power of a barbarous King […].

词形变化

foes plural foes plural

词汇关系

反义词
ally friend

词源

词源 1
From Middle English fo (“foe; hostile”), from earlier yfoh, yvo, ifa (“foe”), from Old English ġefāh (“enemy”), from fāh (“hostile”), from Proto-West Germanic *faih, from Proto-Germanic *faihaz (compare Old Frisian fāch (“punishable”), Middle High German gevēch (“feuder”)), from Proto-Indo-European *peyk/ḱ- (“to hate, be hostile”) (compare Middle Irish óech (“enemy, fiend”), Lithuanian pi̇̀ktas (“evil”)).
词源 2
Acronym of [ten to the power of] fifty-one ergs, due to equalling 10⁵¹ ergs; coined by Gerald Brown of Stony Brook University in his work with Hans Bethe.
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