The corpus record — Latin

sycophanta

sycophanta · m

an informer

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Where it lives

Trinummus 72 · 73.18/10k
Menaechmi 3 · 3.16/10k
Pseudolus 3 · 2.71/10k
Andria 2 · 2.03/10k
Poenulus 2 · 1.81/10k
Curculio 1 · 1.62/10k
Amphitruo 1 · 1.02/10k
Heautontimorumenos 1 · 0.91/10k
Noctes Atticae 3 · 0.27/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

1. sȳcŏphanta — Lewis & Short

sȳcŏphanta (sūc-), ae, m., = sukofa/nths (orig. a fig-informer, i. e. one who informed against those who exported figs from Attica contrary to law; hence, in gen.),

I an informer, tale-bearer, backbiter, slanderer; a deceiver, trickster, cheat (anteand post-class.; cf.: calumniator, quadruplator).

I Lit.: sucophanta et subdolus, Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 72; id. Curc. 4, 1, 2; id. Men. 2, 2, 10; 5, 9, 28 al.; Ter. And. 4, 5, 20; 5, 4, 16; Gell. 14, 1, 32.—

II Transf., a cunning flatterer, parasite, sycophant (syn.: planus, scurra), Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 8; id. Men. 2, 1, 35; Prud. Apoth. 35.

2. sycophanta — Walde–Hofmann

sycophanta, -ae m. „falscher Anklüger, Rünkeschmied, Schmarotzer* (seit Plaut, ebenso sgcophantor ,betrüge" und sgceophantia f. ,Betrügerei*): entl. aus gr. oUkoqdvtnc, -ou m. ds., dies entl. aus einer ägäischen oder kleinasiatischen Sprache (s. ficus oben I 492). — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. sycophanta, p. 1546]

3. sūcŏphanta — Lewis & Short

sūcŏphanta, v. sycophanta.

In the wild

6 of 89 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. sycophanta (scan p. 695; entry #11539).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. sycophanta (scan p. 1546; entry #2900).

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