sicofante

== Italian == === Alternative forms === sicofanta, sicopanta (obsolete, literary) === Etymology === From Latin sȳcophanta (“informer, trickster”), from Ancient Greek σῡκοφάντης (sūkophántēs). The entomological sense is a semantic loan from translingual Calosoma sycophanta. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /si.koˈfan.te/ Rhymes: -ante Hyphenation: si‧co‧fàn‧te === Noun === sicofante m (plural sicofanti) (historical, Ancient Greece, law) one who informs the authorities of violations of the law (transferred sense, figurative) informer, spy (transferred sense, figurative) slanderer swindler, fraudster, scammer forest caterpillar hunter (the ground beetle Calosoma sycophanta) Synonyms: calosoma comune, calosoma verde Hypernym: calosoma === References === sicofante in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana “sicofante”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, volume 18 scho–sik, UTET, 1996, page 1057ab === Further reading === Sicofante on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it Calosoma sycophanta on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it === Anagrams === infocaste, infoscate, sfociante == Spanish == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /sikoˈfante/ [si.koˈfãn̪.t̪e] Rhymes: -ante Syllabification: si‧co‧fan‧te === Noun === sicofante m (plural sicofantes) alternative form of sicofanta === Further reading === “sicofante”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025