foe

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Etymology 1[edit]

Middle English fo 'foe; hostile', from earlier ifo 'foe', from Old English ġefāh 'enemy', from fāh 'hostile', from Proto-Germanic *faihaz (cf. Old Frisian fāch 'punishable', Middle High German gevēch 'feuder'), from Proto-Indo-European *peik/k̑- 'to hate, be hostile' (cf. Middle Irish oech 'enemy, fiend', Latin piget 'he is annoying', Lithuanian piktas ‘evil’, Albanian pis ‘dirty, scoundrel’).

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foe (comparative more foe, superlative most foe)

  1. (obsolete) Hostile.
    • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 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 [...]

Noun[edit]

foe (plural foes)

  1. An enemy.
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Etymology 2[edit]

An acronym of fifty-one ergs

Noun[edit]

foe (plural foes)

  1. A unit of energy equal to 1044 joules.

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