different between detractor vs foe

English

Alternative forms

• detractour (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman detractour, from Old French detractor.

Noun

detractor (plural detractors)

1. A person who belittles the worth of another person or cause.
   • 2012, Tom Lamont, How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world (in The Daily Telegraph, 15 November 2012)[1]

     Four polite Englishmen in their middle 20s, feigning like firewater drunks in a Eugene O'Neill play: it's exactly the stuff that makes their detractors groan.

Synonyms

• slanderer
• libeler
• cynic
• mudslinger
• defamer

Antonyms

• proponent
• supporter

Translations

Anagrams

• tractored

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /de??trak.tor/, [d?e??t??äkt??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /de?trak.tor/, [d???t???kt??r]

Noun

d?tractor m (genitive d?tract?ris); third declension

1. detractor, disparager

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Verb

d?tractor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of d?tract?

References

• detractor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• detractor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• detractor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Romanian

Etymology

From French détracteur

Noun

detractor m (plural detractori)

1. detractor

Declension

Spanish

Noun

detractor m (plural detractores, feminine detractora, feminine plural detractoras)

1. detractor

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fo?/
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophone: faux

Etymology 1

From Middle English fo (“foe; hostile”), from earlier ifo (“foe”), from Old English ?ef?h (“enemy”), from f?h (“hostile”), from Proto-West Germanic *faih, from Proto-Germanic *faihaz (compare Old Frisian f?ch (“punishable”), Middle High German gev?ch (“feuder”)), from Proto-Indo-European *peik/k?- (“to hate, be hostile”) (compare Middle Irish óech (“enemy, fiend”), Lithuanian pìktas (“evil”)).

Adjective

foe

1. (obsolete) Hostile.
   • , vol.1, ch.23:

     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 […].

Translations

Noun

foe (plural foes)

1. An enemy.

Synonyms

• (enemy): adversary, enemy, opponent.

Antonyms

• (enemy): ally, friend

Derived terms

• befoe

Translations

Etymology 2

Acronym of fifty-one ergs., due to the value of a "foe", 1 foe = 10⁵¹ergs; coined by Gerald Brown of Stony Brook University in his work with Hans Bethe.

Noun

foe (plural foes)

1. A unit of energy equal to 10⁴⁴ joules.

Synonyms

• bethe (B)

Anagrams

• EFO, EOF, OEF

Middle English

Noun

foe

1. Alternative form of fo

Portuguese

Verb

foe

1. Obsolete spelling of foi