The word 'enemy' is closely related to 'amicable', 'amorous', 'to enamour', 'amable', 'amiable', and 'amity'.
All of these words ultimately derive from Latin 'amāre' ('to love; to like').
From its derivative 'amīcus' ('friendly; friend'), the word 'inimīcus' ('unfriendly; enemy') was derived: 'in-imīcus', literally "un-friendly".
Via Old French 'enemi', this became the English word 'enemy'.
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@yvanspijk i wish «imigo» was used more in portuguese, it sound similar to «amigo»
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@samoak Do you mean 'inimigo'? I can't find 'imigo' in the dictionaries.
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@yvanspijk i found it on https://dicionario.priberam.org/imigo but it says it's archaic
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@samoak Thanks! It seems to be the descendant of Old Galician-Portuguese 'ẽemigo'.
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