CIA

desc

→ Japanese: シー・アイ・エー

→ Japanese: シー・アイ・エー

→ Korean: 시아이에이 (siaiei)

/ˌsiːˌaɪˈeɪ/

Cleveland Institute of Art
w:Cleveland Institute of Art

Initialism of Cleveland Institute of Art.

Clark International Airport
w:Clark International Airport

(Philippines) Initialism of Clark International Airport.


CIA

/ˌsiːˌaɪˈeɪ/

Initialism of Circuit Interactive Analyzer.


CIA

Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency

(espionage) CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)


KGB

From Russian КГБ (KGB), acronym of Комите́т госуда́рственной безопа́сности (Komitét gosudárstvennoj bezopásnosti, “State Security Committee”).

President Putin's KGB roots have sadly informed a style of governance that is neither reformist nor particularly democratic. The common thread throughout his domestic and foreign policies is his effort to trade on fear -- the fears of Russians that their country is under attack from hostile external forces (Chechens, NATO or free marketeers); and the fears of Westerners that if not for a strong, pragmatic leader, Russia will again become unruly, unstable and potentially aggressive.

2001 January 4, Garry Kasparov, “The Russian President Trades on Fear”, in The Wall Street Journal, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-01-09, International:

But in 1967 Treholt's trenchant opposition to the Vietnam War attracted the attention of the KGB.

2019 [2018], Ben Macintyre, chapter 4, in The Spy and the Traitor, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 75:

security service
security service#English

(historical) The Committee for State Security of the Soviet Union (the Soviet security service).


KGB

KGB (canonical inanimate masculine)
KGB (canonical neuter)

(historical) KGB (the former Soviet State Security Committee)


ROI

(military, espionage) Initialism of region of interest.


shadowing

en-noun

shadowing (countable and uncountable, plural shadowings)

(espionage) Secretly or discreetly tracking or following someone, keeping under surveillance.


proprietary

From French propriétaire, from Latin proprietārius. By surface analysis, propriety + -ary. Compare with the Latin proprietas (“property”) and proprius (“ownership”).

For all practical purposes, the proprietaries conduct their own financial affairs with a minimum of oversight from CIA headquarters.

1975, Victor Marchetti, John D. Marks, The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, page 159:

The “operating proprietaries” actually do business as private firms. They are incorporated where they are officed, they file the applicable state and federal tax returns, and they obtain the licenses necessary to a legitimate business operation.

2013, Joseph Goulden, The Dictionary of Espionage: Spyspeak into English, page 175:

(espionage) A company doing legitimate business while also serving as a front for espionage.


company

company (countable and uncountable, plural companies)

→ Hindi: कंपनी (kampnī)

desc

→ Hokkien: 公班衙 (kong-pan-gêe / kong-pan-gê)

→ Malay: kompeni

→ Scottish Gaelic: companaidh

→ Swahili: kampuni

From Middle English companye (“a team; companionship”), from Old French compaignie (“companionship”) (Modern French: compagnie), possibly from Late Latin *compania, but this word is not attested. Old French compaignie is equivalent to Old French compaignon (Modern French: compagnon) + -ie. More at companion.
Displaced native Old English werod, gefer, getæl, and hired.

inh

who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl

you don't dip your pen in company ink

don't fish off the company dock, you don't dip your pen in the company inkwell, you don't fish off the company pier

As he had worked for the CIA for over 30 years, he would soon take retirement from the company.

A team; a group of people who work together professionally.

(espionage, informal) An intelligence service.


taupe

Inherited from Old French taupe, inherited from Latin talpa.

(figuratively) (espionage) mole (undercover agent)


CI

en-noun

CI (countable and uncountable, plural CIs)

(espionage) Initialism of counterintelligence.


burn

en-verb

burn (third-person singular simple present burns, present participle burning, simple past and past participle burned or (mostly Commonwealth) burnt or (obsolete) brent)

burns (present singular third-person)
burning (participle present)
burned (participle past)
burned (past)
burnt (Commonwealth participle past)
burnt (Commonwealth past)
brent (obsolete participle past)
brent (obsolete past)
burn (infinitive)

Sranan Tongo: bron

Aukan: boon

From Middle English bernen, birnen, from Old English birnan (“to burn”), metathesis from Proto-West Germanic *brinnan, from Proto-Germanic *brinnaną (“to burn”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenw-, present stem from *bʰrewh₁-. Doublet of brew.
See also Middle Irish brennim (“drink up”), bruinnim (“bubble up”); also Middle Irish bréo (“flame”), Albanian burth (“Cyclamen hederifolium, mouth burning”), Sanskrit भुरति (bhurati, “moves quickly, twitches, fidgets”). More at brew.

verbranden

chemistry: to cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent

He had already burned his cover with Mrs. Phillips, and it was not a mistake he intended to make again.

Eventually they'd report back to Ryker, and he still didn't know if Ryker had personally burned his cover and sent assassins after him, or if the SSU had a mole. Until he knew for certain, he had to play this safe.

2013, Vanessa Kier, Vengeance: The SSU Book 1:

(transitive, espionage) To compromise (an agent's cover story).

"How does Leipzig burn him precisely?" Enderby insisted. "What's the pressure? Dirty pix—well, okay. Karla's a puritan, so's Kirov. But I mean, Christ, this isn't the fifties, is it? […]


cover

en-noun

cover (countable and uncountable, plural covers)

→ Hijazi Arabic: كَڤَر (kavar)

→ Portuguese: cover

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Old Latin com
Latin cum
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi
Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Latin operiō
Latin cooperiō
Old French covrirbor.
Middle English coveren
English cover
From Middle English coveren, borrowed from Old French covrir, cueuvrir (modern French couvrir), from Late Latin coperire, from Latin cooperiō (“I cover completely”), from co- (intensive prefix) + operiō (“I close, cover”). Displaced native Middle English thecchen and bethecchen (“to cover”) (from Old English þeccan, beþeccan (“to cover”)), Middle English helen, (over)helen, (for)helen (“to cover, conceal”) (from Old English helan (“to conceal, cover, hide”)), Middle English wrien, (be)wreon (“to cover”) (from Old English (be)wrēon (“to cover”)), Middle English hodren, hothren (“to cover up”) (from Low German hudren (“to cover up”)).
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the original sense of the verb and noun cover was “hide from view” as in its cognate covert. Except in the limited sense of “cover again”, the word recover is unrelated and is cognate with recuperate. Cognate with Spanish cubrir (“to cover”).

cumhdach

A cloth or similar material used to protect underlying items from dust, sunlight, insects etc. when not being used.

throw nickels around like manhole covers

(espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative; cover story.

peitetarina

espionage: persona maintained by an operative


asset

Back-formation from assets, from Anglo-Norman asetz, from Old French assez (“enough”). Compare Middle English asseth.


mole

From Middle English molle (“mole”), molde, mole, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *mulaz, *mulhaz (“mole, salamander”), from Proto-Indo-European *molg-, *molk- (“slug, salamander”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)melw- (“to grind, crush, beat”).
Cognate with North Frisian mull (“mole”), Saterland Frisian molle (“mole”), Dutch mol (“mole”), Low German Mol, Mul (“mole”), German Molch (“salamander, newt”), Old Russian смолжь (smolžʹ, “snail”), Czech mlž (“clam”).
Derivation as an abbreviation of Middle English molewarpe, a variation of moldewarpe, moldwerp (“mole”) in Middle English is unexplained and probably unlikely due to the simultaneous occurrence of both words. See mouldwarp.

der

(espionage) An internal spy, a person who involves themself with an enemy organisation, especially an intelligence or governmental organisation, to determine and betray its secrets from within.


tail

Sranan Tongo: tere

From Middle English tail, tayl, teil, from Old English tæġl (“tail”), from Proto-West Germanic *tagl, from Proto-Germanic *taglą (“hair, fiber; hair of a tail”), from Proto-Indo-European *doḱ- (“hair of the tail”), from Proto-Indo-European *deḱ- (“to tear, fray, shred”). Cognate with Scots tail (“tail”), Saterland Frisian Tail (“tail, end”), West Frisian teil (“tail”), Dutch teil (“tail, haulm, blade”), Low German Tagel (“twisted scourge, whip of thongs and ropes; end of a rope”), German Zagel (“tail”), dialectal Danish tavl (“hair of the tail”), Swedish tagel (“hair of the tail, horsehair”), Norwegian tagl (“tail”), Icelandic tagl (“tail, horsetail, ponytail”), Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌲𐌻 (tagl, “hair”). In some senses, apparently by a generalization of the usual opposition between head and tail.

cog

have the world by the tail on a downhill pull

mackerel sky and mare's-tails make lofty ships carry low sails

mackerel sky and mare's-tails make tall ships carry low sails

the cow knows not the worth of its tail till it loses it

trust someone as far as one could fling a bull by the tail


wire

en-noun

wire (countable and uncountable, plural wires)

→ Gulf Arabic: واير (wāyir)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: vaier, wire

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: vaier, wire

→ Swedish: vajer, wire

From Middle English wir, wyr, from Old English wīr (“wire, metal thread, wire-ornament”), from Proto-Germanic *wīraz (“wire”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁iros (“a twist, thread, cord, wire”), from *weh₁y- (“to turn, twist, weave, plait”).

score string

object used to keep the score in billiards

(slang) A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.

Wanze

slang: hidden listening device on the person


NSA

National Security Agency
w:en:National Security Agency

National Surveillance Agency
w:en:National Security Agency

(government, US) Initialism of National Security Agency.

(government, US, humorous) Initialism of National Surveillance Agency.

(government, US, humorous, nickname) Initialism of No Such Agency.

Initialism of National Security Agency.
Initialism of No Such Agency.

Alternative forms: N.S.A., N. S. A.


treff

The Moscow experts on treffs perform their duty with ponderous, often ridiculous, awkwardness. Before the atomic spy Allan Nunn May left Canada to go to London, a treff in London had to be arranged for him and another agent.

1955, David J. Dallin, Soviet Espionage, page 495:


double agent

Coordinate term: triple agent

(espionage) A spy who pretends to work for one side, when they are actually working for or passing information to the other.


shadow

en-verb

shadow (third-person singular simple present shadows, present participle shadowing, simple past and past participle shadowed)

shadows (present singular third-person)
shadowing (participle present)
shadowed (participle past)
shadowed (past)

From Middle English schadowen, from Old English sċeadwian, from sċeadu (“shadow; shade”) + -ian (suffix forming verbs).

Soon after departure, we cross the invisible border into Scotland to enjoy more stunning coastal scenery, before the line finally swings inland at Burnmouth to traverse pine-clad valleys, shadowed by the A1 trunk road until we rejoin the coast at Cove, east of Dunbar.

2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75:

(particularly espionage) To secretly or discreetly track or follow another, to keep under surveillance.


double

double (third-person singular simple present doubles, present participle doubling, simple past and past participle doubled)

doubles (present singular third-person)
doubling (participle present)
doubled (participle past)
doubled (past)

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English double, from Old French doble, double, from Latin duplus (“twofold”). Doublet of doppio and duple.

Was this simply the cover name of an Allied spy-code named the Brass Monkey? […] The possibility that the Brass Monkey himself was "doubling" (with headquarters' approval, of course) is too logical […]

(espionage, intransitive) To operate as a double agent.


ghost

en-noun

ghost (countable and uncountable, plural ghosts)

→ Japanese: ゴースト (gōsuto)

Inherited from Middle English gost, from Old English gāst (which was the word for “spirit” as well as “ghost”; the original sense survives in Modern English Holy Ghost), from Proto-West Germanic *gaist, from Proto-Germanic *gaistaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéysdos, derived from *ǵʰéysd- (“anger, agitation”).
The ⟨h⟩ in the spelling appears in the Prologue to William Caxton's Royal Book, printed in 1484, in a reference to the ‘Holy Ghoost’, likely introduced by Caxton's assistant, Wynkyn de Worde, as a result of Flemish influence, where it was spelled gheest at the time. Doublet of geist.

(espionage) A covert (and deniable) agent.


agent

From Latin agēns, present active participle of agere (“to drive, lead, conduct, manage, perform, do”).

4 June 2016, Press Association, Ronald Koeman’s agent says Dutchman has agreed terms with Everton
Ronald Koeman has agreed a deal with Everton to become their new manager, his agent has reportedly told Dutch media. The agent Rob Jansen said, according to the popular Voetbal International website, that it was now down to Southampton and Everton to agree a compensation package for the Dutchman, who has a year remaining on his contract at St Mary’s.

en:person who finds and arranges work for another

A person who looks for work for another person and brokers a deal between the hiree and hirer.


agent

csb-noun

agent m inan (female equivalent agentka)

(espionage) agent (someone who works for an intelligence agency)


agent

pl-noun

agent m pers (female equivalent agentka, diminutive agencik or agenciak)

agentka (feminine)
agencik (diminutive)
agenciak (diminutive)
agent (nominative singular)
agenci (nominative plural)
agenty (derogatory nominative plural)
agenta (genitive singular)
agentów (genitive plural)
agentowi (dative singular)
agentom (dative plural)
agenta (accusative singular)
agentów (accusative plural)
agentem (instrumental singular)
agentami (instrumental plural)
agencie (locative singular)
agentach (locative plural)
agencie (singular vocative)
agenci (plural vocative)

Borrowed from German Agent, from French agent, from Middle French agent, from Latin agēns. Doublet of agens. First attested in 1609.

(espionage) officer, peeper, secret agent


Romeo

From Italian Romeo, from Ancient Greek Ῥωμαῖος (Rhōmaîos, “Roman”).

der

(espionage) A spy specialised in seducing persons of interest, in particular a man targeting women.


cooked

en-adj

cooked (comparative more cooked, superlative most cooked)

more cooked (comparative)
most cooked (superlative)

more than someone has had cooked dinners


resident

From Middle English resident, from Anglo-Norman resident, from Latin residēns, present participle of resideō (“to remain behind, reside, dwell”), equivalent to reside + -ent, from re- (“back”) + sedeō (“I sit”). Doublet of resiant and rezident. The espionage sense is a semantic loan from Russian резиде́нт (rezidént).

semantic loan

(espionage) Alternative form of rezident


ninja

ninja (nominative singular)
ninjowie (nominative plural)
ninje (derogatory nominative plural)
ninji (genitive singular)
ninjów (genitive plural)
ninji (dative singular)
ninjom (dative plural)
ninję (accusative singular)
ninjów (accusative plural)
ninje (accusative derogatory plural)
ninją (instrumental singular)
ninjami (instrumental plural)
ninji (locative singular)
ninjach (locative plural)
ninjo (singular vocative)
ninjowie (plural vocative)
ninje (derogatory plural vocative)

Coordinate term: ninjutsu

(espionage, historical, martial arts) ninja (person trained in ninjutsu, especially one used for espionage, assassination, and other tasks requiring stealth during Japan's shogunate period)


willy

(espionage) A person who is manipulated into serving as a useful agent without knowing it.


spy

From Middle English spien, aphetic variant of earlier espien (“to espy”), from Old French espier (“to spy”), from Frankish *spehōn (“to spy”), from Proto-Germanic *spehōną (“to see, look”), from Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- (“to look”). Akin to German spähen (“to spy”), Dutch spieden (“to spy”).
The noun displaced native Old English sċēawere (literally “watcher”), which was also the word for "mirror." In this sense, the verb displaced Old English sċēawian, which was also the word for "to watch" and became the Modern English word show.

ncog

The dead leap at the throat, destroy
The meaning of the day; dark forms
Have scaled your walls, and spies betray
Old secrets to amorphous swarms.

1941, Theodore Roethke, “Feud”, in Open House; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, 1975, →ISBN, page 4:

Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.

2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55:

(espionage) A person who secretly watches and examines the actions of other individuals or organizations and gathers information on them (usually to gain an advantage).


intelligence

en-noun

intelligence (countable and uncountable, plural intelligences)

From Middle English intelligence, from Old French intelligence, from Latin intelligentia, which is from inter- (“between”) + legere (“choose, pick out, read”), or Proto-Italic *legō (“to care”). Doublet of intelligentsia.

nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people

nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public

no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public

Not so, however, with Tarzan, the man-child. His life amidst the dangers of the jungle had taught him to meet emergencies with self-confidence, and his higher intelligence resulted in a quickness of mental action far beyond the powers of the apes.

1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter 5, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, 1914 June, →OCLC:

...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

1936 Feb., F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Crack-Up", Esquire

Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.

2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34:

(chiefly uncountable) Capacity of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire knowledge, and apply it to practice; the ability to comprehend and learn; the ability to process sentient experience to generate true beliefs with a justified degree of confidence.

From a religious point of view, a bodhisattva with sharp faculties and great intelligence can cause a tremendous upheaval if he or she misuses that power under the influence of negative emotions, like attachment and hatred.

2018, Dalai Lama, translated by Dhondup Tsering, Introduction to Buddhism, →ISBN, page 8:

(chiefly uncountable) The quality of making use or having made use of such capacities: depth of understanding, mental quickness.


cloak-and-dagger

Calque of French de cape et d’épée (“of the cloak and the sword”); first attested 1840. The French term referred to a genre of drama in which the main characters wore cloaks and had swords. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow used the “cloak and sword” term in 1840, whereas Charles Dickens preferred “cloak and dagger” a year later.

cal

Israel wages cloak-and-dagger war on Iran [headline]

2009 February 18, Philip Sherwell, Dina Kraft, “Israel wages cloak-and-dagger war on Iran”, in The Age:

Marked by menacing furtive secrecy, often with a melodramatic tint or espionage involved.

Charles Dickens
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


surveillance

en-noun

surveillance (countable and uncountable, plural surveillances)

Unadapted borrowing from French surveillance (“a watching over, overseeing, supervision”), from surveiller (“to watch, oversee”), from sur- (“over”) + veiller (“to watch”), from Middle French, from Old French veillier (“to stay awake”), from Latin vigilāre, present active infinitive of vigilō (“I am watchful”). More at vigilant.

ubor

The threat of terrorism to the British lies in the overreaction to it of British governments. Each one in turn clicks up the ratchet of surveillance, intrusion and security. Each one diminishes liberty.

2012 December 14, Simon Jenkins, “We mustn't overreact to North Korea boys' toys”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 2, page 23:

Cook was making an impassioned plea to end the technology industry’s collection and sale of user data. “This is surveillance,” he continued.

2019 January 31, Ian Bogost, quoting Tim Cook, “Apple’s Empty Grandstanding About Privacy”, in The Atlantic:

(military, espionage) Systematic observation of places and people by visual, aural, electronic, photographic or other means.


undercover

en-adj

undercover (comparative more undercover, superlative most undercover)

more undercover (comparative)
most undercover (superlative)

Employed or engaged in spying or secret investigation.


spook

Borrowed from Dutch spook (“ghost”), from Middle Dutch spooc (“spook, ghost”). Cognate with Middle Low German spôk, spûk (“apparition, ghost”), Middle High German gespük (“a haunting”), German Spuk, Danish spøge (“to haunt”), Swedish spöke (“ghost”). Doublet of puck.

cog

From Ian Fleming to John Le Carre - authors have long been fascinated by the world of espionage. But, asks the BBC’s Gordon Corera, what do real life spooks make of fictional spies?

2009 July 24, “Spies like them”, in BBC News Magazine:

The congressional study frets that Huawei’s and ZTE’s products could be used as Trojan horses by Chinese spooks.

2012 October 13, “Huawei and ZTE: Put on hold”, in The Economist:

(espionage, slang) An undercover agent or spy.


illegal

Borrowed from French illégal, from Medieval Latin illegalis, from Latin legalis, by surface analysis, il- + legal. In senses relating to immigration, via clipping from illegal alien or illegal immigrant.

Anna Chapman, whose glamorous appearance won her more publicity in the Western media than all the other illegals combined, was so successfully deceived by a US sting operation that she handed over her SVR laptop to an FBI agent posing as a Russian.

2012, Christopher Andrew, ‘Colder War’, Literary Review, number 399:

Traditionally, illegals have been extremely hard for counterintelligence agencies to find, but in a world of biometric data, facial recognition software and open source investigation possibilities, it has become harder for Russia to keep its illegals below the radar.

2022 August 26, Shaun Walker, “Socialite who charmed Nato staff in Naples was Russian spy, say investigators”, in The Guardian:

(espionage) A spy operating abroad illegally and under non-official cover, without visible ties to his or her country’s authorities.


measles

en-noun

measles pl (normally plural, singular measle)

Either from Middle Dutch masels (“blood blisters, measels”) or Middle Low German maselen (“red blemishes, measels”), both from Old High German masala (“blood blister, phlegmon”). Doublet of measlings. Cognate with mazer & mase and Middle Low German masele & māsel. Influenced in pronunciation and some senses by mesel (“leprous, leper”).

der

[…] they would prefer having him "die of the measles," as wags at the CIA put it, than be punished by legal means. If there is no convenient way of administering the "measles," they may even favor simply letting him go.

1975, Miles Copeland, Beyond Cloak and Dagger: Inside the CIA, page 204:

Such final solutions, sometimes referred to as termination with extreme prejudice, are known in the CIA as dying of the measles — that is, the death appears to be of natural causes.

1977, Raymond Edward Palmer, The Making of a Spy, page 99:

(US, espionage jargon) A discreet assassination made to look like death from any natural cause.


open-source

open-source intelligence

The ramifications of disinformation spill on to the streets with tangible, often devastating real-world consequences. These processes were already under way in 2014, when I founded the open-source investigative group Bellingcat.

2023 December 16, Eliot Higgins, “Moment of truth”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 1:

(espionage) Relying on publicly available information (open sources).


open source

Compound of open + source, coined by Christine Peterson in 1998 for software as an umbrella term to encompass existing concepts such as free software, freedomware, and sourceware.

(espionage) Information that is in the public domain and available to everybody.


residence

en-noun

residence (countable and uncountable, plural residences)

From Middle English residence, from Old French residence, from Medieval Latin residentia, from residēns, present participle of resideō, equivalent to reside + -ence.


controller

/kənˈtɹəʊlə/

From Middle English countreroller, from Anglo-Norman contreroulour and Middle French contreroleur (French contrôleur), from Medieval Latin contrārotulātor, from *contrārotulāre (from which control). By surface analysis, control + -er.

(espionage) The person who supervises and handles communication with an agent in the field.


intel

Intel is important in espionage.

We have reason to believe one of our people is giving intel to the enemy. Hit an enemy communication center and get us a name.

2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Identify the Spy:

Aaaaaand that’s pretty much everything we know about Zazie and David’s ‘ship, but definitely check back here for any and all intel on the couple. ❤

2024 October 30, Gretty Garcia, “Zazie Beetz and David Rysdahl’s Relationship Timeline All in One Place”, in Cosmopolitan:

(especially espionage and military) Intelligence (secret information).


espionage

espionage (countable and uncountable, plural espionages)

Recorded since 1793, from French espionnage, from espionner (“to spy”), from Middle French espionner (“to spy”), from espion (“spy”), from Old French espion (“spy”), from Frankish *spehō (“spy”), from Frankish *spehōn (“to spy”), from Proto-Germanic *spehōną (“to spy, peek, peer”). In modern times, the French pronunciation of the s, which had fallen silent since the 13th century, was restored due to the influence of Italian spione (“spy”), and was therefore also adopted by the English. More at spy.

der

So intolerable did Heavy Benson's espionage become, that Raynham would have grown depopulated of its womankind had not Adrian interfered, who pointed out to the Baronet what a fearful arm his butler was wielding.

1859, George Meredith, chapter 16, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:

What a freak show! I mean, how often do you meet a wrestling librarian?
Yeah, about as often as you meet a high schoolgirl involved in international espionage… Okay, bad example.

2003 June 20, Joseph Purdy, “Totally Switched”, in Totally Spies!, season 2, episode 19, spoken by Alexandra “Alex” (Andrea Taylor as Clover and Katie Leigh), Marathon Media, via Teletoon:

The act or process of learning secret information through clandestine means.

spioenasie

act of learning secret information through clandestine means


ninjutsu

Unadapted borrowing from English ninjutsu.

ubor

Coordinate term: ninja

(espionage, historical, martial arts) ninjutsu (Japanese martial art that is a collection of techniques originally practiced for Japanese espionage purposes, and includes methods of gathering information, nondetection, avoidance, and misdirection techniques)


honeypot

From Middle English hwny pott; equivalent to honey + pot.

And the American Embassy in Moscow was infiltrated thanks to “honeypots,” Soviet women who seduced Marine guards.

1989, The Washingtonian, volume 24, page 25:

Perhaps in order to create his own, more controlled environment for debaucherie, he set up a house of prostitution with Gestapo funds, justifying it as a "honeypot" with which to ensnare unsuspecting foreign diplomats.

1996, John H. Waller, The Unseen War in Europe: Espionage and Conspiracy in the Second World War, Random House, →ISBN, page 226:

The NKVD uses attractive ballerinas for honeypot espionage.

2004, Richard C.S. Trahair, Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 353:

(figuratively) Something or someone similarly sweet or enticing, particularly:

(espionage) A spy (typically attractive and female) who uses sex to trap and blackmail a target.


Agent

de-noun

Agent m (weak, genitive Agenten, plural Agenten, feminine Agentin)

Agenten (genitive)
Agenten (plural)
Agentin (feminine)
Agent (nominative singular)
Agenten (definite nominative plural)
Agenten (genitive singular)
Agenten (definite genitive plural)
Agenten (dative singular)
Agenten (dative definite plural)
Agenten (accusative singular)
Agenten (accusative definite plural)

agent (male or of unspecified gender) (intermediary for certain services, such as for artistic performances or public relations)


Abbreviation of Military Intelligence, Section Six.

abbrev

Secret Intelligence Service
Secret Intelligence Service

The overseas intelligence agency of the United Kingdom, whose primary function is to spy on foreign governments and terror groups located abroad. Formally called the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS).


Abbreviation of Military Intelligence, Section Five.

The domestic intelligence and counter-espionage agency of the United Kingdom, which operates in secret and whose primary function is to spy on terrorist organizations and others viewed as a threat to British national security. Formally known as the Security Service.


residency

en-noun

residency (countable and uncountable, plural residencies)


U

en-adj

U (not generally comparable, comparative Uer, superlative Uest)

An abbreviation of a word or term beginning with the letter U. Adjective sense 1 (“characteristic of the upper classes”) was coined by British linguist Alan S. C. Ross (1907–1980) in a 1954 article, and popularized by the English journalist and writer Nancy Mitford (1904–1973).

(not comparable, education, espionage) Usually in parentheses: abbreviation of unclassified.


Wanze

Wanze (genitive)
Wanzen (plural)
Wanze (nominative singular)
Wanzen (definite nominative plural)
Wanze (genitive singular)
Wanzen (definite genitive plural)
Wanze (dative singular)
Wanzen (dative definite plural)
Wanze (accusative singular)
Wanzen (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German wanze, formed with the contractive suffix -ze (cf. Spatz, Heinz) from older Middle and Old High German wantlūs (“bug”, literally “wall louse”), equivalent to Wand + Laus.


provocateur

Borrowed from French provocateur. Doublet of provocator.

An undercover agent who incites suspected persons to partake in or commit criminal acts.


Maulwurf

de-noun

Maulwurf m (strong, genitive Maulwurfes or Maulwurfs, plural Maulwürfe, feminine Maulwürfin)

Maulwurfes (genitive)
Maulwurfs (genitive)
Maulwürfe (plural)
Maulwürfin (feminine)
Maulwurf (nominative singular)
Maulwürfe (definite nominative plural)
Maulwurfes (genitive singular)
Maulwurfs (genitive singular)
Maulwürfe (definite genitive plural)
Maulwurf (dative singular)
Maulwurfe (dative singular)
Maulwürfen (dative definite plural)
Maulwurf (accusative singular)
Maulwürfe (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German mūlwurf, mūlwerf, which is composed of mūl (“mouth”) (see Maul) and wurf (“throwing”) (see werfen).
This is a folk etymological reinterpretation of the earlier term moltwerf, from late Old High German mul(t)wurf, which actually meant "earth(up)thrower," the first element from molta (“earth, dust”) (see Molte). Thus, the original word referred to the mole as a creature that throws up piles of earth. More at English mouldwarp.

mole (small, burrowing insectivore of the family Talpidae)


sleeper cell

A group of people (sleepers) who inconspicuously remain dormant in a community until activated, by a prearranged signal, in order to perform acts of espionage, sabotage, or terrorism.

潛伏小組

group of people who remain dormant in a community until activated


tradecraft

en-noun

tradecraft (countable and uncountable, plural tradecrafts)

(espionage) The methods used in espionage and clandestine operations.


backstop

[…] to be set up in Indonesia with a phony book and school supplies company established in New York City as a backstop.

1976, Joseph Burkholder Smith, Portrait of a Cold Warrior, page 116:

Closely representing an alibi, creating a backstop could involve such measures as having people available to verify the details of an agent's cover story.

1990, Bruce W. Watson, Susan M. Watson, Gerald W. Hopple, United States intelligence: an encyclopedia, page 1974:

(espionage) Something serving to bolster or support a cover story etc.


CBI

(British) Initialism of Confederation of British Industry.

(India) Initialism of Central Bureau of Investigation.


CBI

(law) Initialism of Confidential Business Information.

(railways) Initialism of Computer-Based Interlocking.


informant

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-informant.wav

The only material the linguist has to begin with are the informant's grammatical utterances in the target language pronounced arbitrarily in a natural or assigned communicative situation or stimulated artificially by the investigator.

1977, A. E. Kibrik, The methodology of field investigations in linguistics:

The informant learns his language by formal training and, more importantly, by constant exposure to its use. He cannot repeat to the linguist what he has never seen or heard.

2003, Sergei Nirenburg, H. L. Somers, Yorick Wilks, Readings in machine translation, page 116:

(linguistics) A native speaker who acts as a linguistic reference for a language being studied. The informant demonstrates native pronunciation, provides grammaticality judgments regarding linguistic well-formedness, and may also explain cultural references and other important contextual information.

informantti

lingustics: native speaker who acts as a reference


supervisor

es-noun

supervisor m (plural supervisores, feminine supervisora, feminine plural supervisoras)

supervisores (plural)
supervisora (feminine)
supervisoras (feminine plural)


infiltrate

en-verb

infiltrate (third-person singular simple present infiltrates, present participle infiltrating, simple past and past participle infiltrated)

infiltrates (present singular third-person)
infiltrating (participle present)
infiltrated (participle past)
infiltrated (past)

From Middle English infiltrate (adj), from Medieval Latin infiltrātus, from infiltrō.

процеждам

to cause a fluid to pass through a substance by filtration

The spy infiltrated the high-tech company and stole many secrets.

Caithness was infiltrated with a palpable sense of being underimagined.

2012, Will Self, Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys, →ISBN, page 113:

(transitive, intransitive) To surreptitiously penetrate, enter or gain access to.

infiltrar

to surreptitiously penetrate, enter or gain access

(transitive, intransitive, of a liquid) To pass through something by filtration.

(transitive) To cause (a liquid) to pass through something by filtration.

(transitive, military) To send (soldiers, spies, etc.) through gaps in the enemy line.

пранікаць у тыл праціўніка

to send soldiers through gaps in the enemy line


infiltrate

One critical distinction to make is whether a focal corneal infiltrate is infected with bacteria or is a sterile immunologic response.

2008, Jimmy D. Bartlett, Siret D. Jaanus, Clinical Ocular Pharmacology, page 539:

Extensive lumpy infiltrates with a tendency to caseate and to form fistulas with purulent secretions appear, mainly in the anogenital region.

2013, Otto Braun-Falco, Dermatology, page 141:

Common immunohistochemical markers of this lymphoma include CD2, CD56, CD3, and T-cell receptors. 7 Typically, the histology of these lymphomas are characterized by monomorphic inflammatory cellular infiltrates, which may be diffuse or show angiocentricity and angiodestruction as well as tissue destruction. 7 Lymphoid markers from the nasal mucosal biopsy from this patient were negative for CD56 and EBER.

2015, Brook McConnell, M. Sherif Said, Vijay R. Ramakrishnan, “Nasal septal perforation associated with pyoderma gangrenosum”, in Allergy & Rhinology, volume 6, →DOI:

(pathology) Any undesirable substance or group of cells that has made its way into part of the body.


flutter

flutter (third-person singular simple present flutters, present participle fluttering, simple past and past participle fluttered)

flutters (present singular third-person)
fluttering (participle present)
fluttered (participle past)
fluttered (past)

From Middle English floteren, from Old English floterian, flotorian (“to float about, flutter”), from Proto-Germanic *flutrōną, frequentative of Proto-Germanic *flutōną (“to float”), equivalent to float + -er (frequentative suffix). Cognate with West Frisian flodderje (“to flutter, beat”), Dutch flodderen (“to flutter, wave”), Low German fluttern, fluddern (“to flutter”), German flittern (“to sparkle, glitter”). More at float.

cog

This was the first time that Nosenko had been subjected to a lie detector — or what the CIA called fluttering. The Soviet Union did not use such devices for interrogation.

1978, Edward Jay Epstein, Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald, page 38:

"Anyway, she cracked and we fluttered her and—" / "Fluttered her?" / "Sorry, gave her a polygraph, a lie detector test. And she passed, more or less, […]

(espionage, slang) To subject to a lie detector test.


backstory

From back- (prefix meaning ‘in, into, or towards the past’) + story.

prefix

(chiefly espionage, law enforcement) A fictitious account of a person's history designed to conceal their actual history and motives.


sneaky

[…] in cooperation with the National Security Agency, installs and maintains "sneakies" throughout the U.S.S.R. and Communist China — but increasingly, denied areas are surveyed more simply.

1974, Miles Copeland, Without cloak or dagger: the truth about the new espionage, page 244:

[…] has used travellers to plant 'sneakies' - small electronic transmitting devices which form part of a surveillance network.

1991, Chapman Pincher, The Truth about Dirty Tricks:

(espionage, slang) Any device used for covert surveillance.


kret

kret (nominative singular)
krety (nominative plural)
kretu (genitive singular)
kretów (genitive plural)
kretowi (dative singular)
kretom (dative plural)
kret (accusative singular)
krety (accusative plural)
kretem (instrumental singular)
kretami (instrumental plural)
krecie (locative singular)
kretach (locative plural)
krecie (singular vocative)
krety (plural vocative)


情報

/t͡ɕʰiŋ³⁵ pɑʊ̯⁵¹/

/t͡sʰɪŋ²¹ pou̯³³/

/t͡siɪŋ²⁴⁻²² po²¹/

/t͡siɪŋ²⁴⁻²² po⁴¹/

/t͡siɪŋ¹³⁻²² po²¹/

/t͡siɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ po¹¹/

/t͡siɪŋ²³⁻³³ pɤ²¹/

/t͡sʰeŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ po²¹³/

/t͡ɕʰiŋ³⁵ pɑʊ̯⁵¹/

/t͡sʰɪŋ²¹ pou̯³³/

/t͡siɪŋ²⁴⁻²² po²¹/

/t͡siɪŋ²⁴⁻²² po⁴¹/

/t͡siɪŋ¹³⁻²² po²¹/

/t͡siɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ po¹¹/

/t͡siɪŋ²³⁻³³ pɤ²¹/

/t͡sʰeŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ po²¹³/

(military, espionage) information; intelligence (Classifier: 份)


épier

Inherited from Middle French espier, from Old French espier, from Vulgar Latin *spiāre (compare Italian spiare; Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan espiar), from Frankish *spehōn, from Proto-Germanic *spehōną (“to spy”), from Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- (“to look”). Cognate with Middle Dutch spien (“to spy”), German spähen (“to peek, peer, spy”).

Par les fenêtres entre-bâillées, j’épie les rez-de-chaussée. Je vois des plantes vertes qui viennent d’être arrosées, des douilles d’obus rutilantes et des lames de parquet étroites, cirées, qui font des zigzags.

1924, Emmanuel Bove, Mes Amis, archived from the original on 2019-05-27:

(transitive) (espionage) to spy on, keep an eye on, watch


cousins

From cousin + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum, regular plurals of nouns, and the third-person singular indicative present tense forms of verbs).
The plural noun sense 1 (“American or British intelligence services”) was popularized in the works of the English author John le Carré (David John Moore Cornwell; 1930–2020).

suffix

[T]he grounded fieldmen, the trainers and the case officers who made their own murmured caucus always – they saw the question solely in operational terms. […] They saw the shotgun marriage with the Cousins as just another skilful bit of tradecraft in a long and delicate poker game.

1977, John le Carré [pseudonym; David John Moore Cornwell], chapter I, in The Honourable Schoolboy, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, page 16:

(espionage, slang) The American intelligence services (from a British perspective) or the British intelligence services (from an American perspective).


cârtiță

cârtițe (plural)
cârtiță (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
cârtița (accusative definite nominative singular)
cârtițe (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
cârtițele (accusative definite nominative plural)
cârtițe (indefinite singular)
cârtiței (definite singular)
cârtițe (indefinite plural)
cârtițelor (definite plural)
cârtiță (singular vocative)
cârtițo (singular vocative)
cârtițelor (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Bulgarian къртица (kǎrtica), from Proto-Slavic *krъtica, from *krъtъ (“mole”). Compare Serbo-Croatian krtica.


SDR

en-noun

SDR (countable and uncountable, plural SDRs)

(espionage) Initialism of surveillance detection route.


spying

spying (countable and uncountable, plural spyings)

Inherited from Middle English spyinge, spiyng, spyeng, equivalent to spy + -ing.

There are two ways in which the obsessive character of jealousy tends to exert itself: one is in the need to know, the endless tests and investigations and spyings that are so characteristic of jealousy.

1980, Amélie Rorty, Explaining Emotions, page 472:

espionage; the act of secretly gathering information


code name

(business, espionage, military) A name used to clandestinely identify somebody or something, either for military or espionage purposes, or for commercial confidentiality.

代號

name used to clandestinely identify something


tailing

A prolongation of current in a telegraph line, due to capacity in the line and causing signals to run together.


turn around

en-verb

turn around (third-person singular simple present turns around, present participle turning around, simple past and past participle turned around)

turns around (present singular third-person)
turning around (participle present)
turned around (participle past)
turned around (past)

kääntää

idiomatic: to effect a positive reversal of a trend

Some months ago, the Captain had come to the FBI with a story that he had been contacted by Soviet agents, and the FBI had “turned him around” and used him to plant false and specially made up classified material of no importance on the Soviets.

2014, Joseph DiMona, To the Eagle's Nest:

(transitive, espionage) To convert (an agent) to work for one's own side.


infiltrar

es-verb

infiltrar (first-person singular present infiltro, first-person singular preterite infiltré, past participle infiltrado)

infiltro (first-person present singular)
infiltré (first-person preterite singular)
infiltrado (participle past)
infiltrar (infinitive)
infiltrando (gerund)
infiltrado (masculine participle past singular)
infiltrada (feminine participle past singular)
infiltrados (masculine participle past plural)
infiltradas (feminine participle past plural)
infiltro (first-person indicative present singular)
infiltras (indicative informal present second-person singular)
infiltrás (indicative informal present second-person singular vos-form)
infiltra (indicative present singular third-person)
infiltramos (first-person indicative plural present)
infiltráis (indicative plural present second-person)
infiltran (indicative plural present third-person)
infiltraba (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
infiltrabas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
infiltraba (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
infiltrábamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
infiltrabais (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
infiltraban (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
infiltré (first-person indicative preterite singular)
infiltraste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
infiltró (indicative preterite singular third-person)
infiltramos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
infiltrasteis (indicative plural preterite second-person)
infiltraron (indicative plural preterite third-person)
infiltraré (first-person future indicative singular)
infiltrarás (future indicative second-person singular)
infiltrará (future indicative singular third-person)
infiltraremos (first-person future indicative plural)
infiltraréis (future indicative plural second-person)
infiltrarán (future indicative plural third-person)
infiltraría (conditional first-person indicative singular)
infiltrarías (conditional indicative second-person singular)
infiltraría (conditional indicative singular third-person)
infiltraríamos (conditional first-person indicative plural)
infiltraríais (conditional indicative plural second-person)
infiltrarían (conditional indicative plural third-person)
infiltre (first-person present singular subjunctive)
infiltres (informal present second-person singular subjunctive)
infiltrés (informal present second-person singular subjunctive vos-form)
infiltre (present singular subjunctive third-person)
infiltremos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
infiltréis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
infiltren (plural present subjunctive third-person)
infiltrara (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
infiltraras (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
infiltrara (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
infiltráramos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
infiltrarais (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
infiltraran (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
infiltrase (first-person imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive)
infiltrases (imperfect imperfect-se second-person singular subjunctive)
infiltrase (imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive third-person)
infiltrásemos (first-person imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive)
infiltraseis (imperfect imperfect-se plural second-person subjunctive)
infiltrasen (imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive third-person)
infiltrare (first-person future singular subjunctive)
infiltrares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
infiltrare (future singular subjunctive third-person)
infiltráremos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
infiltrareis (future plural second-person subjunctive)
infiltraren (future plural subjunctive third-person)
infiltra (imperative informal second-person singular)
infiltrá (imperative informal second-person singular vos-form)
infiltre (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
infiltre (imperative singular third-person)
infiltremos (first-person imperative plural)
infiltrad (imperative plural second-person)
infiltren (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
infiltren (imperative plural third-person)
infiltres (imperative negative second-person singular)
infiltre (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
infiltre (imperative negative singular third-person)
infiltremos (first-person imperative negative plural)
infiltréis (imperative negative plural second-person)
infiltren (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
infiltren (imperative negative plural third-person)
infiltrarme (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
infiltrarte (combined-form dative infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
infiltrarle (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
infiltrarse (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
infiltrarnos (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
infiltraros (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
infiltrarles (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
infiltrarse (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
infiltrarme (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
infiltrarte (accusative combined-form infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
infiltrarlo (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
infiltrarla (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
infiltrarse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
infiltrarnos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
infiltraros (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
infiltrarlos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
infiltrarlas (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
infiltrarse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
infiltrándome (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-singular)
infiltrándote (combined-form dative gerund object-second-person object-singular)
infiltrándole (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
infiltrándose (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
infiltrándonos (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-plural)
infiltrándoos (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-second-person)
infiltrándoles (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
infiltrándose (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
infiltrándome (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-singular)
infiltrándote (accusative combined-form gerund object-second-person object-singular)
infiltrándolo (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
infiltrándola (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
infiltrándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
infiltrándonos (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-plural)
infiltrándoos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-second-person)
infiltrándolos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
infiltrándolas (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
infiltrándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
infíltrame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
infíltrate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
infíltrale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
infíltranos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
infíltrales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
infíltrame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
infíltrate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
infíltralo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
infíltrala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
infíltranos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
infíltralos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
infíltralas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
infiltrame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
infiltrate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
infiltrale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
infiltranos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
infiltrales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
infiltrame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
infiltrate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
infiltralo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
infiltrala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
infiltranos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
infiltralos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
infiltralas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
infíltreme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
infíltrele (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
infíltrese (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
infíltrenos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
infíltreles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
infíltreme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
infíltrelo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
infíltrela (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
infíltrese (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
infíltrenos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
infíltrelos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
infíltrelas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
infiltrémoste (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
infiltrémosle (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
infiltrémonos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
infiltrémoos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
infiltrémosles (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
infiltrémoste (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
infiltrémoslo (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
infiltrémosla (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
infiltrémonos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
infiltrémoos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
infiltrémoslos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
infiltrémoslas (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
infiltradme (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
infiltradle (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
infiltradnos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
infiltraos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
infiltradles (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
infiltradme (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
infiltradlo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
infiltradla (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
infiltradnos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
infiltraos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
infiltradlos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
infiltradlas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
infíltrenme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
infíltrenle (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
infíltrennos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
infíltrenles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
infíltrense (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
infíltrenme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
infíltrenlo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
infíltrenla (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
infíltrennos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
infíltrenlos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
infíltrenlas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
infíltrense (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)


NOC

en-noun

NOC (countable and uncountable, plural NOCs)

non-official cover
non-official cover#English

(espionage) Initialism of non-official cover.


wiretapper

A person who installs or monitors wiretaps.


wiretap

Back-formation from wiretapper; or else wire + tap

A connection installed on a telephone line or other communications system in order to allow a third party to conduct covert surveillance of conversations.

ფარული მოსმენის ელექტრონული მოწყობილობა

paruli mosmenis elekṭronuli moc̣q̇obiloba


mouche

→ English: mouche

→ Portuguese: muche

→ Swedish: musch

→ Turkish: muş

Inherited from Middle French mousche, from Old French mousche, musche, from Latin musca, from a Proto-Indo-European root *mus-, *mu-, *mew-.

on n’attrape pas des mouches avec du vinaigre

(historical) (espionage) a spy employed by the ancien régime to seek out subversive ideas


counterintelligence

counterintelligence (usually uncountable, plural counterintelligences)


counterespionage

All those activities undertaken to neutralize or exploit the espionage activities of another nation or an enemy.


secret agent

A member of an intelligence agency whose identity or affiliation is kept confidential.


stakeout

The police had a stakeout in place where they expected the crime to occur.

The act of watching a location or people, generally covertly.


surveil

en-verb

surveil (third-person singular simple present surveils, present participle surveiling or surveilling, simple past and past participle surveiled or surveilled)

surveils (present singular third-person)
surveiling (participle present)
surveilling (participle present)
surveiled (participle past)
surveiled (past)
surveilled (participle past)
surveilled (past)

1903. Back-formation from surveillance (but compare also French surveiller and the variant surveille).

The plaintiff also stresses that the store as a whole, and the customer exits especially, were closely surveilled.
Alexandre of London v. Indem. Ins. Co., 182 F. Supp. 748, 750 (United States District Court for the District of Columbia) (1960), cited in Bryan A. Garner. A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage (2nd ed., 2001) p. 861

(transitive, US) To keep someone or something under surveillance.


sinology

From sino- (“China”) + -logy (“study of”).

People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China

(Cold War, politics, espionage) The study of the internal politics of the high members of the government of the People's Republic of China.


triple agent

There are also triple agents—people who do what the doubles have done, but change their minds and, under our control, pass phoney intelligence back to the Russians. Do you understand? It’s nothing but a complicated game, really.

1980 [1962], Ian Fleming, chapter 11, in The Spy Who Loved Me, →ISBN, page 150:

A spy who pretends to be a double agent for one side, while actually acting as a double agent for the other side.


legenda

legendowy (adjective)
legenda (nominative singular)
legendy (nominative plural)
legendy (genitive singular)
legend (genitive plural)
legendzie (dative singular)
legendom (dative plural)
legendę (accusative singular)
legendy (accusative plural)
legendą (instrumental singular)
legendami (instrumental plural)
legendzie (locative singular)
legendach (locative plural)
legendo (singular vocative)
legendy (plural vocative)

Internationalism; compare English legend, French légende, German Legende, ultimately from Medieval Latin legenda.

(espionage, slang) legend (fabricated backstory for a spy, with associated documents and records)


FSB

From Russian ФСБ (FSB), initialism of Федеральная Служба Безопасности (Federalʹnaja Služba Bezopasnosti, “Federal Security Service”).

Possible victims included Roman Tsepov, Putin’s bodyguard in 1990s St Petersburg, who died after drinking tea in 2004 at a local FSB office.

2020 August 20, Luke Harding, “Alexei Navalny and the long history of poisoned Kremlin critics”, in The Guardian:

(initialism, Russia, politics, espionage, law enforcement) The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation.


handler

From Middle English handler, handiller, equivalent to handle + -er.

The governor received guidance on how to best disseminate key information to the public from her handler.

(in combination) An advisor or manager providing guidance to a person occupying public office or a prominent position.


konspirativ

de-adj

konspirativ (strong nominative masculine singular konspirativer, comparative konspirativer, superlative am konspirativsten)

konspirativer (masculine nominative singular strong)
konspirativer (comparative)
am konspirativsten (superlative)
konspirativ (masculine predicative singular)
konspirativ (feminine predicative singular)
konspirativ (neuter predicative singular)
konspirativ (plural predicative)
konspirativer (masculine nominative singular strong without-article)
konspirative (feminine nominative singular strong without-article)
konspiratives (neuter nominative singular strong without-article)
konspirative (nominative plural strong without-article)
konspirativen (genitive masculine singular strong without-article)
konspirativer (feminine genitive singular strong without-article)
konspirativen (genitive neuter singular strong without-article)
konspirativer (genitive plural strong without-article)
konspirativem (dative masculine singular strong without-article)
konspirativer (dative feminine singular strong without-article)
konspirativem (dative neuter singular strong without-article)
konspirativen (dative plural strong without-article)
konspirativen (accusative masculine singular strong without-article)
konspirative (accusative feminine singular strong without-article)
konspiratives (accusative neuter singular strong without-article)
konspirative (accusative plural strong without-article)
der konspirative (definite includes-article masculine nominative singular weak)
die konspirative (definite feminine includes-article nominative singular weak)
das konspirative (definite includes-article neuter nominative singular weak)
die konspirativen (definite includes-article nominative plural weak)
des konspirativen (definite genitive includes-article masculine singular weak)
der konspirativen (definite feminine genitive includes-article singular weak)
des konspirativen (definite genitive includes-article neuter singular weak)
der konspirativen (definite genitive includes-article plural weak)
dem konspirativen (dative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
der konspirativen (dative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
dem konspirativen (dative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
den konspirativen (dative definite includes-article plural weak)
den konspirativen (accusative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
die konspirative (accusative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
das konspirative (accusative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
die konspirativen (accusative definite includes-article plural weak)
ein konspirativer (includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular)
eine konspirative (feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular)
ein konspiratives (includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular)
konspirativen (indefinite mixed nominative plural)
keine konspirativen (includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural)
eines konspirativen (genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer konspirativen (feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
eines konspirativen (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
konspirativen (genitive indefinite mixed plural)
keiner konspirativen (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einem konspirativen (dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer konspirativen (dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
einem konspirativen (dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
konspirativen (dative indefinite mixed plural)
keinen konspirativen (dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einen konspirativen (accusative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
eine konspirative (accusative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
ein konspiratives (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
konspirativen (accusative indefinite mixed plural)
keine konspirativen (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
konspirativer (comparative masculine predicative singular)
konspirativer (comparative feminine predicative singular)
konspirativer (comparative neuter predicative singular)
konspirativer (comparative plural predicative)
konspirativerer (comparative masculine nominative singular strong without-article)
konspirativere (comparative feminine nominative singular strong without-article)
konspirativeres (comparative neuter nominative singular strong without-article)
konspirativere (comparative nominative plural strong without-article)
konspirativeren (comparative genitive masculine singular strong without-article)
konspirativerer (comparative feminine genitive singular strong without-article)
konspirativeren (comparative genitive neuter singular strong without-article)
konspirativerer (comparative genitive plural strong without-article)
konspirativerem (comparative dative masculine singular strong without-article)
konspirativerer (comparative dative feminine singular strong without-article)
konspirativerem (comparative dative neuter singular strong without-article)
konspirativeren (comparative dative plural strong without-article)
konspirativeren (accusative comparative masculine singular strong without-article)
konspirativere (accusative comparative feminine singular strong without-article)
konspirativeres (accusative comparative neuter singular strong without-article)
konspirativere (accusative comparative plural strong without-article)
der konspirativere (comparative definite includes-article masculine nominative singular weak)
die konspirativere (comparative definite feminine includes-article nominative singular weak)
das konspirativere (comparative definite includes-article neuter nominative singular weak)
die konspirativeren (comparative definite includes-article nominative plural weak)
des konspirativeren (comparative definite genitive includes-article masculine singular weak)
der konspirativeren (comparative definite feminine genitive includes-article singular weak)
des konspirativeren (comparative definite genitive includes-article neuter singular weak)
der konspirativeren (comparative definite genitive includes-article plural weak)
dem konspirativeren (comparative dative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
der konspirativeren (comparative dative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
dem konspirativeren (comparative dative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
den konspirativeren (comparative dative definite includes-article plural weak)
den konspirativeren (accusative comparative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
die konspirativere (accusative comparative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
das konspirativere (accusative comparative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
die konspirativeren (accusative comparative definite includes-article plural weak)
ein konspirativerer (comparative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular)
eine konspirativere (comparative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular)
ein konspirativeres (comparative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular)
konspirativeren (comparative indefinite mixed nominative plural)
keine konspirativeren (comparative includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural)
eines konspirativeren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer konspirativeren (comparative feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
eines konspirativeren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
konspirativeren (comparative genitive indefinite mixed plural)
keiner konspirativeren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einem konspirativeren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer konspirativeren (comparative dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
einem konspirativeren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
konspirativeren (comparative dative indefinite mixed plural)
keinen konspirativeren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einen konspirativeren (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
eine konspirativere (accusative comparative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
ein konspirativeres (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
konspirativeren (accusative comparative indefinite mixed plural)
keine konspirativeren (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
am konspirativsten (masculine predicative singular superlative)
am konspirativsten (feminine predicative singular superlative)
am konspirativsten (neuter predicative singular superlative)
am konspirativsten (plural predicative superlative)
konspirativster (masculine nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
konspirativste (feminine nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
konspirativstes (neuter nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
konspirativste (nominative plural strong superlative without-article)
konspirativsten (genitive masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
konspirativster (feminine genitive singular strong superlative without-article)
konspirativsten (genitive neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
konspirativster (genitive plural strong superlative without-article)
konspirativstem (dative masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
konspirativster (dative feminine singular strong superlative without-article)
konspirativstem (dative neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
konspirativsten (dative plural strong superlative without-article)
konspirativsten (accusative masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
konspirativste (accusative feminine singular strong superlative without-article)
konspirativstes (accusative neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
konspirativste (accusative plural strong superlative without-article)
der konspirativste (definite includes-article masculine nominative singular superlative weak)
die konspirativste (definite feminine includes-article nominative singular superlative weak)
das konspirativste (definite includes-article neuter nominative singular superlative weak)
die konspirativsten (definite includes-article nominative plural superlative weak)
des konspirativsten (definite genitive includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
der konspirativsten (definite feminine genitive includes-article singular superlative weak)
des konspirativsten (definite genitive includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
der konspirativsten (definite genitive includes-article plural superlative weak)
dem konspirativsten (dative definite includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
der konspirativsten (dative definite feminine includes-article singular superlative weak)
dem konspirativsten (dative definite includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
den konspirativsten (dative definite includes-article plural superlative weak)
den konspirativsten (accusative definite includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
die konspirativste (accusative definite feminine includes-article singular superlative weak)
das konspirativste (accusative definite includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
die konspirativsten (accusative definite includes-article plural superlative weak)
ein konspirativster (includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular superlative)
eine konspirativste (feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular superlative)
ein konspirativstes (includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular superlative)
konspirativsten (indefinite mixed nominative plural superlative)
keine konspirativsten (includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural superlative)
eines konspirativsten (genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
einer konspirativsten (feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
eines konspirativsten (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
konspirativsten (genitive indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keiner konspirativsten (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)
einem konspirativsten (dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
einer konspirativsten (dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
einem konspirativsten (dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
konspirativsten (dative indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keinen konspirativsten (dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)
einen konspirativsten (accusative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
eine konspirativste (accusative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
ein konspirativstes (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
konspirativsten (accusative indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keine konspirativsten (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)

(especially espionage, also crime) covert, secret, conspiratory, conspirational


Geheimdienst

de-noun

Geheimdienst m (strong, genitive Geheimdienstes, plural Geheimdienste)

Geheimdienstes (genitive)
Geheimdienste (plural)
Geheimdienst (nominative singular)
Geheimdienste (definite nominative plural)
Geheimdienstes (genitive singular)
Geheimdienste (definite genitive plural)
Geheimdienst (dative singular)
Geheimdienste (dative singular)
Geheimdiensten (dative definite plural)
Geheimdienst (accusative singular)
Geheimdienste (accusative definite plural)

Compound of geheim (“secret”) + Dienst (“service”), literally “secret service”.

com

intelligence service
intelligence service

intelligence agency, secret agency, intelligence service


industrial espionage

The American Consul at Leipzig requested the Chamber of Commerce of that city to furnish him with certain information concerning the preparation of rabbit’s skin for the hat trade. The Chamber replied that, although it was desirous of promoting the trade of Germany with foreign countries, it must, as a matter of principle, decline to furnish technical reports on German manufactures that would be likely to assist foreign competitors. The Leipziger Faerber Zeitung published the following, headed “Unfair Competition & Industrial Espionage" by the Consuls of the United States.”

1899 April 29, “What Our Consuls are Doing for American Trade”, in Scientific American, page 261:

(espionage) The use of clandestine methods to acquire secret information for commercial advantage.


infiltrator

Sometimes Israelis were attacked by Arab infiltrators, and hardly a month went by without a West Jerusalemite either being killed or wounded.

1981, Terrence Prittie, Whose Jerusalem?, page 72:

Suddenly, one of the cadre appeared from out of the darkness. "Hello, soldier", he said. "Do you have a light?” “Sure,” Jack replied, digging into his pocket for a book of matches. “Soldier! You are dead!” exclaimed the cadre. Jack had failed to challenge the infiltrator. The password was “Bronx”, the counter password was “Bombers”.

2015, Roger K. Baer, An American Journey, →ISBN:

One who infiltrates an organization or territory; an undercover or covert agent.

informant

one who infiltrates an organization or territory


spionaggio industriale

it-noun

spionaggio industriale m (plural spionaggi industriali)

industrial espionage
industrial espionage


průmyslová špionáž

průmyslová špionáž (nominative singular)
průmyslové špionáže (nominative plural)
průmyslové špionáže (genitive singular)
průmyslových špionáží (genitive plural)
průmyslové špionáži (dative singular)
průmyslovým špionážím (dative plural)
průmyslovou špionáž (accusative singular)
průmyslové špionáže (accusative plural)
průmyslová špionáži (singular vocative)
průmyslové špionáže (plural vocative)
průmyslové špionáži (locative singular)
průmyslových špionážích (locative plural)
průmyslovou špionáží (instrumental singular)
průmyslovými špionážemi (instrumental plural)


espionaje industrial

es-noun

espionaje industrial f (plural espionajes industriales)


vastavakoilu

vastavakoilu (nominative singular)
vastavakoilut (nominative plural)
vastavakoilu (accusative nominative singular)
vastavakoilut (accusative nominative plural)
vastavakoilun (accusative genitive singular)
vastavakoilut (accusative genitive plural)
vastavakoilun (genitive singular)
vastavakoilujen (genitive plural)
vastavakoiluiden (genitive plural)
vastavakoiluitten (genitive plural)
vastavakoilua (partitive singular)
vastavakoiluja (partitive plural)
vastavakoiluita (partitive plural)
vastavakoilussa (inessive singular)
vastavakoiluissa (inessive plural)
vastavakoilusta (elative singular)
vastavakoiluista (elative plural)
vastavakoiluun (illative singular)
vastavakoiluihin (illative plural)
vastavakoilulla (adessive singular)
vastavakoiluilla (adessive plural)
vastavakoilulta (ablative singular)
vastavakoiluilta (ablative plural)
vastavakoilulle (allative singular)
vastavakoiluille (allative plural)
vastavakoiluna (essive singular)
vastavakoiluina (essive plural)
vastavakoiluksi (singular translative)
vastavakoiluiksi (plural translative)
vastavakoilutta (abessive singular)
vastavakoiluitta (abessive plural)
vastavakoiluin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
vastavakoiluni (nominative singular)
vastavakoiluni (nominative plural)
vastavakoiluni (accusative nominative singular)
vastavakoiluni (accusative nominative plural)
vastavakoiluni (accusative genitive singular)
vastavakoiluni (accusative genitive plural)
vastavakoiluni (genitive singular)
vastavakoilujeni (genitive plural)
vastavakoiluideni (genitive plural)
vastavakoiluitteni (genitive plural)
vastavakoiluani (partitive singular)
vastavakoilujani (partitive plural)
vastavakoiluitani (partitive plural)
vastavakoilussani (inessive singular)
vastavakoiluissani (inessive plural)
vastavakoilustani (elative singular)
vastavakoiluistani (elative plural)
vastavakoiluuni (illative singular)
vastavakoiluihini (illative plural)
vastavakoilullani (adessive singular)
vastavakoiluillani (adessive plural)
vastavakoilultani (ablative singular)
vastavakoiluiltani (ablative plural)
vastavakoilulleni (allative singular)
vastavakoiluilleni (allative plural)
vastavakoilunani (essive singular)
vastavakoiluinani (essive plural)
vastavakoilukseni (singular translative)
vastavakoiluikseni (plural translative)
vastavakoiluttani (abessive singular)
vastavakoiluittani (abessive plural)
vastavakoiluineni (comitative plural)
vastavakoilusi (nominative singular)
vastavakoilusi (nominative plural)
vastavakoilusi (accusative nominative singular)
vastavakoilusi (accusative nominative plural)
vastavakoilusi (accusative genitive singular)
vastavakoilusi (accusative genitive plural)
vastavakoilusi (genitive singular)
vastavakoilujesi (genitive plural)
vastavakoiluidesi (genitive plural)
vastavakoiluittesi (genitive plural)
vastavakoiluasi (partitive singular)
vastavakoilujasi (partitive plural)
vastavakoiluitasi (partitive plural)
vastavakoilussasi (inessive singular)
vastavakoiluissasi (inessive plural)
vastavakoilustasi (elative singular)
vastavakoiluistasi (elative plural)
vastavakoiluusi (illative singular)
vastavakoiluihisi (illative plural)
vastavakoilullasi (adessive singular)
vastavakoiluillasi (adessive plural)
vastavakoilultasi (ablative singular)
vastavakoiluiltasi (ablative plural)
vastavakoilullesi (allative singular)
vastavakoiluillesi (allative plural)
vastavakoilunasi (essive singular)
vastavakoiluinasi (essive plural)
vastavakoiluksesi (singular translative)
vastavakoiluiksesi (plural translative)
vastavakoiluttasi (abessive singular)
vastavakoiluittasi (abessive plural)
vastavakoiluinesi (comitative plural)
vastavakoilumme (nominative singular)
vastavakoilumme (nominative plural)
vastavakoilumme (accusative nominative singular)
vastavakoilumme (accusative nominative plural)
vastavakoilumme (accusative genitive singular)
vastavakoilumme (accusative genitive plural)
vastavakoilumme (genitive singular)
vastavakoilujemme (genitive plural)
vastavakoiluidemme (genitive plural)
vastavakoiluittemme (genitive plural)
vastavakoiluamme (partitive singular)
vastavakoilujamme (partitive plural)
vastavakoiluitamme (partitive plural)
vastavakoilussamme (inessive singular)
vastavakoiluissamme (inessive plural)
vastavakoilustamme (elative singular)
vastavakoiluistamme (elative plural)
vastavakoiluumme (illative singular)
vastavakoiluihimme (illative plural)
vastavakoilullamme (adessive singular)
vastavakoiluillamme (adessive plural)
vastavakoilultamme (ablative singular)
vastavakoiluiltamme (ablative plural)
vastavakoilullemme (allative singular)
vastavakoiluillemme (allative plural)
vastavakoilunamme (essive singular)
vastavakoiluinamme (essive plural)
vastavakoiluksemme (singular translative)
vastavakoiluiksemme (plural translative)
vastavakoiluttamme (abessive singular)
vastavakoiluittamme (abessive plural)
vastavakoiluinemme (comitative plural)
vastavakoilunne (nominative singular)
vastavakoilunne (nominative plural)
vastavakoilunne (accusative nominative singular)
vastavakoilunne (accusative nominative plural)
vastavakoilunne (accusative genitive singular)
vastavakoilunne (accusative genitive plural)
vastavakoilunne (genitive singular)
vastavakoilujenne (genitive plural)
vastavakoiluidenne (genitive plural)
vastavakoiluittenne (genitive plural)
vastavakoiluanne (partitive singular)
vastavakoilujanne (partitive plural)
vastavakoiluitanne (partitive plural)
vastavakoilussanne (inessive singular)
vastavakoiluissanne (inessive plural)
vastavakoilustanne (elative singular)
vastavakoiluistanne (elative plural)
vastavakoiluunne (illative singular)
vastavakoiluihinne (illative plural)
vastavakoilullanne (adessive singular)
vastavakoiluillanne (adessive plural)
vastavakoilultanne (ablative singular)
vastavakoiluiltanne (ablative plural)
vastavakoilullenne (allative singular)
vastavakoiluillenne (allative plural)
vastavakoilunanne (essive singular)
vastavakoiluinanne (essive plural)
vastavakoiluksenne (singular translative)
vastavakoiluiksenne (plural translative)
vastavakoiluttanne (abessive singular)
vastavakoiluittanne (abessive plural)
vastavakoiluinenne (comitative plural)
vastavakoilunsa (nominative singular)
vastavakoilunsa (nominative plural)
vastavakoilunsa (accusative nominative singular)
vastavakoilunsa (accusative nominative plural)
vastavakoilunsa (accusative genitive singular)
vastavakoilunsa (accusative genitive plural)
vastavakoilunsa (genitive singular)
vastavakoilujensa (genitive plural)
vastavakoiluidensa (genitive plural)
vastavakoiluittensa (genitive plural)
vastavakoiluaan (partitive singular)
vastavakoiluansa (partitive singular)
vastavakoilujaan (partitive plural)
vastavakoiluitaan (partitive plural)
vastavakoilujansa (partitive plural)
vastavakoiluitansa (partitive plural)
vastavakoilussaan (inessive singular)
vastavakoilussansa (inessive singular)
vastavakoiluissaan (inessive plural)
vastavakoiluissansa (inessive plural)
vastavakoilustaan (elative singular)
vastavakoilustansa (elative singular)
vastavakoiluistaan (elative plural)
vastavakoiluistansa (elative plural)
vastavakoiluunsa (illative singular)
vastavakoiluihinsa (illative plural)
vastavakoilullaan (adessive singular)
vastavakoilullansa (adessive singular)
vastavakoiluillaan (adessive plural)
vastavakoiluillansa (adessive plural)
vastavakoilultaan (ablative singular)
vastavakoilultansa (ablative singular)
vastavakoiluiltaan (ablative plural)
vastavakoiluiltansa (ablative plural)
vastavakoilulleen (allative singular)
vastavakoilullensa (allative singular)
vastavakoiluilleen (allative plural)
vastavakoiluillensa (allative plural)
vastavakoilunaan (essive singular)
vastavakoilunansa (essive singular)
vastavakoiluinaan (essive plural)
vastavakoiluinansa (essive plural)
vastavakoilukseen (singular translative)
vastavakoiluksensa (singular translative)
vastavakoiluikseen (plural translative)
vastavakoiluiksensa (plural translative)
vastavakoiluttaan (abessive singular)
vastavakoiluttansa (abessive singular)
vastavakoiluittaan (abessive plural)
vastavakoiluittansa (abessive plural)
vastavakoiluineen (comitative plural)
vastavakoiluinensa (comitative plural)

[ˈʋɑ̝s̠tɑ̝ˌʋɑ̝ko̞i̯lu]


Spion

de-noun

Spion m (strong, genitive Spions, plural Spione, feminine Spionin)

Spions (genitive)
Spione (plural)
Spionin (feminine)

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16th century, from Italian spione, in part through Middle French espion. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *spehōną, whence German spähen.


Spion

Spion m (strong, genitive Spions, plural Spione)

Spions (genitive)
Spione (plural)
Spion (nominative singular)
Spione (definite nominative plural)
Spions (genitive singular)
Spione (definite genitive plural)
Spion (dative singular)
Spionen (dative definite plural)
Spion (accusative singular)
Spione (accusative definite plural)

→ Czech: špion, špión

→ Dutch: spion
→ Indonesian: spion

→ Kashubian: szpijona

→ Romanian: spion

→ Russian: шпион (špion)

→ Yiddish: שפּיאָן (shpyon)

»Mama, was ist das?« sagte Klara, die durchs Fenster und in den »Spion« blickte. »All die Leute … Was haben sie? Worüber freuen sie sich so?«

1909 [1901], Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks […] , Berlin: Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft, →OCLC, page 173:


espiar

pt-verb

espiar (first-person singular present espio, first-person singular preterite espiei, past participle espiado)

espio (first-person present singular)
espiei (first-person preterite singular)
espiado (participle past)
espiar (impersonal infinitive)
espiar (first-person infinitive singular)
espiares (infinitive second-person singular)
espiar (infinitive singular third-person)
espiarmos (first-person infinitive plural)
espiardes (infinitive plural second-person)
espiarem (infinitive plural third-person)
espiando (gerund)
espiado (masculine participle past singular)
espiados (masculine participle past plural)
espiada (feminine participle past singular)
espiadas (feminine participle past plural)
espio (first-person indicative present singular)
espias (indicative present second-person singular)
espia (indicative present singular third-person)
espiamos (first-person indicative plural present)
espiais (indicative plural present second-person)
espiam (indicative plural present third-person)
espiava (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
espiavas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
espiava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
espiávamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
espiáveis (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
espiavam (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
espiei (first-person indicative preterite singular)
espiaste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
espiou (indicative preterite singular third-person)
espiamos (Brazil first-person indicative plural preterite)
espiámos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
espiastes (indicative plural preterite second-person)
espiaram (indicative plural preterite third-person)
espiara (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
espiaras (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
espiara (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
espiáramos (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
espiáreis (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
espiaram (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
espiarei (first-person future indicative singular)
espiarás (future indicative second-person singular)
espiará (future indicative singular third-person)
espiaremos (first-person future indicative plural)
espiareis (future indicative plural second-person)
espiarão (future indicative plural third-person)
espiaria (conditional first-person singular)
espiarias (conditional second-person singular)
espiaria (conditional singular third-person)
espiaríamos (conditional first-person plural)
espiaríeis (conditional plural second-person)
espiariam (conditional plural third-person)
espie (first-person present singular subjunctive)
espies (present second-person singular subjunctive)
espie (present singular subjunctive third-person)
espiemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
espieis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
espiem (plural present subjunctive third-person)
espiasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
espiasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
espiasse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
espiássemos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
espiásseis (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
espiassem (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
espiar (first-person future singular subjunctive)
espiares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
espiar (future singular subjunctive third-person)
espiarmos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
espiardes (future plural second-person subjunctive)
espiarem (future plural subjunctive third-person)
espia (imperative second-person singular)
espie (imperative singular third-person)
espiemos (first-person imperative plural)
espiai (imperative plural second-person)
espiem (imperative plural third-person)
não espies (imperative negative second-person singular)
não espie (imperative negative singular third-person)
não espiemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
não espieis (imperative negative plural second-person)
não espiem (imperative negative plural third-person)

From Vulgar Latin *spiāre, from Gothic or Frankish *spehōn, from Proto-Germanic *spehōną (“to see, look”), from Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- (“to look”).