different between foeman vs competitor

English

Etymology

From Middle English foman (“an enemy, devil, demon”), from Old English f?hman (“enemy”), equivalent to foe +? man.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f??m?n/

Noun

foeman (plural foemen)

1. An enemy; a foe in battle; an armed or unarmed adversary; a demon
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vii:

     a snaggy Oke, which he had torne / Out of his mothers bowelles, and it made / His mortall mace, wherewith his foemen he dismayde.

   • 2000, George RR Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam 2011, p. 583:

     ‘I count no day as lived unless I have loved a woman, slain a foeman, and eaten a fine meal...and the days that I have lived are as numberless as the stars in the sky.’

Middle English

Noun

foeman

1. Alternative form of foman

English

Alternative forms

• competitour (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French compétiteur, from Latin competitor.

Noun

competitor (plural competitors)

1. A person or organization against whom one is competing.
2. A participant in a competition, especially in athletics.

Synonyms

• (person against whom one is competing): adversary (loosely), opponent (loosely)

• (participant in a competition): contestant

Related terms

• compete
• competition
• competitive

Translations

Anagrams

• optometric, potometric, topometric

Latin

Alternative forms

• conpet?tor

Etymology

From compet? +? -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kom.pe?ti?.tor/, [k?mp??t?i?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kom.pe?ti.tor/, [k?mp??t?i?t??r]

Noun

compet?tor m (genitive compet?t?ris, feminine compet?tr?x); third declension

1. a competitor, rival, adversary, opponent
2. (by extension) plaintiff

   Synonym: pet?tor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

Descendants

References

• competitor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• competitor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• competitor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• competitor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• competitor in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• competitor in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French compétiteur, Latin competitor.

Noun

competitor m (plural competitori)

1. competitor

Related terms

• competi?ie
• competitiv