enmity

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɛn.mɪ.ti/
  Play
• Received-Pronunciation, proscribed: /ˈɛm.nɪ.ti/
  Play
• General-American: /ˈɛn.mɪ.ti/
  Play
• General-American, proscribed: /ˈɛm.nɪ.ti/
  Play
• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• CMU ARPABET: EH1 N M AH0 T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  Play
• CMU ARPABET 2: EH1 N M IH0 T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  Play

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *h3emh3-der. Proto-Italic *amāō 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.

120 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: armiqësi — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Arabic: عَدَاوَة (ʕadāwa) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Arabic: عداوة (ʕadāwa) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Armenian: թշնամություն (tʻšnamutʻyun) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Azerbaijani: düşmənçilik — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Azerbaijani: ədavət — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Belarusian: варо́жасць (varóžascʹ) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Belarusian: варо́жасьць (varóžasʹcʹ) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Belarusian: варажне́ча (varažnjéča) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Belarusian: непрыя́знасць (njepryjáznascʹ) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Belarusian: непрыя́знасьць (njepryjáznasʹcʹ) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Bengali: শত্রুতা (śotruta) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Bulgarian: вражда́ (vraždá) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Bulgarian: вражде́бност (vraždébnost) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Bulgarian: неприя́зън (neprijázǎn) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Catalan: enemistat — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Chinese Mandarin: 敵意 /敌意 (díyì) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Czech: nepřátelství — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Danish: fjendskab — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Dutch: vijandschap — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Dutch: animositeit — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Esperanto: malamikeco — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Estonian: vaenulikkus — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Finnish: vihamielisyys — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• French: inimitié — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Galician: inimizade — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Georgian: მტრობა (mṭroba) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• German: Feindschaft — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Gothic: 𐍆𐌹𐌾𐌰𐌸𐍅𐌰 (fijaþwa) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Greek: εχθρότητα (echthrótita) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Greek: έχθρα (échthra) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Greek: μύνις (mýnis) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Ancient Greek: ἔχθρα (ékhthra) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Hebrew: אֵיבָה (eyvá) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Hindi: घृणा (ghŕṇā) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Hindi: विद्वेष (vidveṣ) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Hindi: वैर (vair) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Hindi: शत्रुता (śatrutā) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Hindi: बैर (bair) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Hungarian: viszály — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Icelandic: fjandskapur — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Italian: inimicizia — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Italian: nimistà — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Italian: ostilità — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Japanese: 敵意 (tekii) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Japanese: 敵対 (tekitai) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Kazakh: ғадауат (ğadauat) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Kazakh: дұшпандық (dūşpandyq) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Kazakh: қастық (qastyq) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Korean: 적의 (jeogui) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Korean: 적대 (jeokdae) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Northern Kurdish: dijminatî — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Northern Kurdish: neyarî — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Kyrgyz: душмандык (duşmandık) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Kyrgyz: кастык (kastık) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Latin: inimicitia — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Latvian: ienaids — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Lithuanian: priešiškumas — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Macedonian: непријателство (neprijatelstvo) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Malay: permusuhan — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Malayalam: ശത്രുത (śatruta) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Maltese: għadwa — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Māori: ito — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Māori: pukuriri — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Middle English: enemyte — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Mongolian: дайсагнал (dajsagnal) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Mongolian: ᠳᠠᠶᠢᠰᠤᠩᠨᠠᠯ (dayisungnal) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Norman: enn'mité — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Norwegian Bokmål: fiendskap — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Church Slavic: вражьда (vražĭda) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Old English: fǣhþ — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Old English: nīþ — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Pashto: دښمني (dox̌maní) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Pashto: عداوت (adāwát) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Iranian Persian: دُشْمَنی (došmani) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Iranian Persian: عَداوَت (adâvat) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Iranian Persian: خُصومَت (xosumat) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Polish: wrogość — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Polish: nieprzyjaźń — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Portuguese: inimizade — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Romanian: dușmănie — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Romanian: inimiciție — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Russian: вражде́бность (vraždébnostʹ) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Russian: вражда́ (vraždá) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Russian: неприя́знь (neprijáznʹ) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Russian: неприя́тие (neprijátije) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Serbo-Croatian: непријатѐљство — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Serbo-Croatian: neprijatèljstvo — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Sicilian: nimicizzia — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Sicilian: nimistà — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Slovak: nepriateľstvo — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Slovene: sovrȃštvo — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Spanish: enemistad — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Spanish: inimicicia — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Spanish: desamistad — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Swahili: uadui — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Swedish: fiendskap — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Tajik: душманӣ (dušmani) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Tajik: адоват (adovat) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Tajik: хусумат (xusumat) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Tatar: дошманлык (doşmanlıq) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Telugu: శత్రుత్వము (śatrutvamu) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Tocharian B: sanuññe — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Tocharian B: wer — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Tok Pisin: pasin birua — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Turkish: yağılık — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Turkish: husumet — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Turkish: adavet — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Turkish: düşmanlık — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Turkish: hasımlık — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Turkmen: duşmançylyk — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Ukrainian: воро́жість (voróžistʹ) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Ukrainian: ворожне́ча (vorožnéča) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Ukrainian: непри́язнь (neprýjaznʹ) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Ukrainian: ворожда́ (voroždá) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Urdu: دُشْمَنی (duśmanī) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Urdu: عَداوَت ('adāvat) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Uyghur: دۈشمەنلىك (düshmenlik) — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Uzbek: dushmanlik — hostile or unfriendly disposition
• Uzbek: adovat — hostile or unfriendly disposition