different between foe vs eny

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

English

Determiner

eny

1. Pronunciation spelling of any.
2. Old spelling of any

Anagrams

• -yne, NYE, Ney, Nye, Yen, ney, nye, yen