different between saboteur vs enemy

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French saboteur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sæb??t??(?)/, /?sæb??t??(?)/

Noun

saboteur (plural saboteurs)

1. A person who intentionally causes the destruction of property in order to hinder the efforts of his/her enemy.

   Synonym: sabotageur

Translations

See also

• sabotage
• terrorism

Anagrams

• U-boaters, bears out, outbears

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French saboteur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa?.bo??tø?r/
• Hyphenation: sa?bo?teur
• Rhymes: -ø?r

Noun

saboteur m (plural saboteurs)

1. saboteur

Related terms

• sabotage
• saboteren

French

Etymology

saboter (“to sabotage”) +? -eur, from sabot (“clog”) (where mill workers would throw their wooden clogs into the machinery to make it halt or break down.)

Pronunciation

Noun

saboteur m (plural saboteurs, feminine saboteuse)

1. saboteur

Descendants

• ? Dutch: saboteur
• ? English: saboteur

Further reading

• “saboteur” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• bouteras

English

Alternative forms

• enemie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English enemy, enemye, enmy, borrowed from Old French enemi, anemi (Modern French ennemi), from Latin inim?cus, from in- (“not”) + am?cus (“friend”). Displaced Middle English feend (“enemy”), from Old English f?ond (“enemy”), which survived into Modern English as fiend, but with a different meaning.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n?mi/
• Hyphenation: en?e?my

Noun

enemy (plural enemies)

1. Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else.

   Synonyms: foe, unfriend, adversary, nemesis, backfriend

   Antonyms: ally, friend

2. A hostile force or nation; a fighting member of such a force or nation.

   Synonyms: foe, adversary, nemesis

   Antonyms: ally, friend

3. Something harmful or threatening to another
4. (attributive) Of, by, relating to, or belonging to an enemy.

Derived terms

Related terms

• enmity
• inimical

Translations

See also

• nemesis

Verb

enemy (third-person singular simple present enemies, present participle enemying, simple past and past participle enemied)

1. To make an enemy of.

Anagrams

• Yemen, yemen

Old French

Noun

enemy m (oblique plural enemys, nominative singular enemys, nominative plural enemy)

1. Alternative form of enemi

Descendants

• ? English: enemy