sicofanta
Catalan
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin sȳcophanta (“informer, trickster”), from Ancient Greek συκοφάντης (sukophántēs).
Pronunciation
Derived terms
Further reading
- “sicofanta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “sicofanta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “sicofanta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “sicofanta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /si.koˈfan.ta/
- Rhymes: -anta
- Hyphenation: si‧co‧fàn‧ta
Noun
sicofanta m (plural sicofanti)
- (literary) Obsolete form of sicofante.
- [a. 1686, Francesco Fulvio Frugoni, “Racconto undecimo [Eleventh tale]”, in Il cane di Diogene [The dog of Diogenes], volume 6, Venice: Antonio Bosio, published 1687, Dialogo XXVI, page 233:
- Sicophanta vuol’anche dir rubator di fichi
- [Sicofanta vuol anche dir rubator di fichi]
- Sycophant also means “fig-stealer”]
Anagrams
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin sȳcophanta (“informer, trickster”), from Ancient Greek συκοφάντης (sukophántēs).
Spanish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin sȳcophanta (“informer, trickster”), from Ancient Greek συκοφάντης (sukophántēs).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sikoˈfanta/ [si.koˈfãn̪.t̪a]
- Rhymes: -anta
- Syllabification: si‧co‧fan‧ta
Further reading
- “sicofanta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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