enmity
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *ən- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃- Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *h₃émh₃ti Proto-Italic *amō Latin amō Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -īcus Latin amīcus Latin inimīcus Vulgar Latin *inimicitas Old French enemistébor. Middle English enemyte English enmity From Middle English enemyte, from Old French enemisté, ennemistié, from Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *inimīcitās, *inimīcitātem, from Latin inimīcus (“enemy”); cognates: French inimitié, Portuguese inimizade, Spanish enemistad. Equivalent to enemy + -ity.
- derived from *inimīcitās✻
- derived from enemisté
- inherited from enemyte
Definitions
The quality of being an enemy
The quality of being an enemy; a hostile or unfriendly disposition.
- We know from their literature that to our Saxon ancestors waste places of moor and forest and marshes were the resort of a host of supernatural creatures at enmity with mankind.
- Some later Muses from Ionia and Sicily reckoned it safest to weave together both versions and say that that which is both many and one, held together by both enmity and amity.
A state or feeling of opposition, hostility, hatred or animosity.
- I merely repeat, remember always your duty of enmity towards Man and all his ways.
- Maybe only a system that can contain the deep enmity between people who spell the metal aluminum and those who spell it aluminium is up to the task of preserving our fragile democratic institutions.
The neighborhood
- synonymanimosity
- synonymanimus
- synonymantagonism
- synonymantipathy
- synonymenemyhood
- synonymenemyness
- synonymenemyship
- synonymfiendship
- synonymfoeship
- synonymhostility
- synonymrancor
- antonymamity
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for enmity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA