different between foe vs archenemy

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.
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     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

English

Alternative forms

• arch-enemy

Etymology

arch- (“chief, most extreme”) +? enemy

Pronunciation

Noun

archenemy (plural archenemies)

1. A principal enemy.
2. A supreme and most powerful enemy.

Synonyms

• archfoe

Translations

See also

• archrival
• archvillain

Anagrams

• aerenchym