sycophanta

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek συκοφάντης (sukophántēs, “slanderer”), from σῦκον (sûkon, “fig”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “I show”).

Pronunciation

Noun

sȳcophanta m (genitive sȳcophantae); first declension

  1. A snitch, informant
  2. A slanderer
  3. A trickster

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative sȳcophanta sȳcophantae
genitive sȳcophantae sȳcophantārum
dative sȳcophantae sȳcophantīs
accusative sȳcophantam sȳcophantās
ablative sȳcophantā sȳcophantīs
vocative sȳcophanta sȳcophantae

Descendants

  • → English: sycophant
  • → French: sycophante
  • → Spanish: sicofanta (learned)

References

  • “sycophanta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “sycophanta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sycophanta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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