enmity

名词 n.
/ˈɛn.mɪ.ti/|/ˈɛm.nɪ.ti/    /ˈɛn.mɪ.ti/|/ˈɛm.nɪ.ti/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The quality of being an enemy; a hostile or unfriendly disposition. countable,uncountable
    — We know from their literature that to our Saxon ancestors waste places of moor and forest and marshes were the resort of a host of supernatural creatures at enmity with mankind.
  2. A state or feeling of opposition, hostility, hatred or animosity. countable,uncountable
    — I merely repeat, remember always your duty of enmity towards Man and all his ways.

词形变化

enmities plural

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-
Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *-ti
Proto-Indo-European *h₃émh₃ti
Proto-Italic *amō
Latin amō
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -īcus
Latin amīcus
Latin inimīcus
Vulgar Latin *inimicitas
Old French enemistébor.
Middle English enemyte
English enmity
From Middle English enemyte, from Old French enemisté, ennemistié, from Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *inimīcitās, *inimīcitātem, from Latin inimīcus (“enemy”). Cognate with French inimitié, Portuguese inimizade, Spanish enemistad. By surface analysis, en(e)m(y) + -ity.
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