foe: [OE] Foe is the modern descendant of the Old English noun gefā ‘enemy’, a derivative of Germanic *faikh-. This also produced the Old English adjective fāh ‘hostile’, and was the ultimate source of modern English feud. => feud
foe (n.)
Old English gefea, gefa "foe, enemy, adversary in a blood feud" (the prefix denotes "mutuality"), from adjective fah "at feud, hostile," also "guilty, criminal," from Proto-Germanic *faihaz (cognates: Old High German fehan "to hate," Gothic faih "deception"), probably from PIE root *peig- (2) "evil-minded, treacherous, hostile" (cognates: Sanskrit pisunah "malicious," picacah "demon;" Greek pikros "bitter;" Latin piget "it irks, troubles, displeases," piger "reluctant, lazy;" Lithuanian piktas "wicked, angry," pekti "to blame"). Weaker sense of "adversary" is first recorded c. 1600.
例文
1. He knew that Karl could be an implacable foe .
彼はカールが彼の死敵になる可能性があることを知っている。
2.With power and to spare we must pursue the tottering foe .
残虐な侵略者を追い詰めるのに適している。
3.The stag at bay is a dangerous foe .
窮寇追うな.
4.Shakur loses his fragile grip on reality and starts blasting away at friends and foe alike.
シャクールは形勢に対するわずかな判断を失い、敵にも味方にも大きな攻撃を始めた。
5.A friend is a friend ; a foe is a foe ; one must be clearly distinguished from the other.