"sicofante" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From Latin sȳcophanta (“informer, trickster”), from Ancient Greek σῡκοφάντης (sūkophántēs).",
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  "lang": "Italian",
  "lang_code": "it",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "english": "Therefore, there's no need to deem unbelievable those who say that taking figs outside of Attica was an ancient prohibition, and that the accusers of those taking them out were dubbed sycophants]",
          "ref": "[16ᵗʰ century [c. 2ⁿᵈ century], Marcello Adriani il Giovane, transl., Le vite parallele [The parallel lives], translation of Βίοι Παράλληλοι (Bíoi Parállēloi, “Parallel Lives”) by Πλούταρχος (Ploútarkhos, “Plutarch”); republished, “Solone [Solon]”, in volume 1, Florence: Felice Le Monnier, 1859, section XXIV, page 213",
          "roman": "ouk àn oûn tis hēgḗsaito pantelôs apithánous toùs légontas hóti kaì súkōn exagōgḕ tò palaiòn apeírēto, kaì tò phaínein endeiknúmenon toùs exágontas klēthênai sukophanteîn",
          "text": "Però non bisogna tor fede del tutto a quelli che dicono esser proibizione antica dello strarre fichi fuori dell’ Attica, e che gli accusatori degli straenti erano cognominati sicofanti.\n[original: οὐκ ἂν οὖν τις ἡγήσαιτο παντελῶς ἀπιθάνους τοὺς λέγοντας ὅτι καὶ σύκων ἐξαγωγὴ τὸ παλαιὸν ἀπείρητο, καὶ τὸ φαίνειν ἐνδεικνύμενον τοὺς ἐξάγοντας κληθῆναι συκοφαντεῖν]",
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          "ref": "[1849, “Sicofante”, in Dizionario politico, nuovamente compilato ad uso della gioventù italiana [Political dictionary, newly compiled for use by the Italian youth], Torino: G. Pomba e C. editori, page 652",
          "text": "Ai tempi di Aristofane e di Demostene la parola Sicofante indicava una persona di classe particolare, che non si può descrivere con un solo vocabolo nella nostra favella, ma il cui senso era assai bene inteso e valutato dagli Ateniesi.",
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          "english": "Let the people remember this; let them repeat it to themselves, day and night: these spies strengthened the chains they were close to breaking.",
          "ref": "19ᵗʰ century, Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi, I moderati; published in F. Bosio, editor, Scritti politici di F. D. Guerrazzi, Turin: M. Guigoni, 1862, page 431",
          "text": "Il popolo lo ricordi bene; giorno e notte se lo ripeta: cotesti Sicofanti gli ribadirono le catene che era vicino a spezzare.",
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          "ref": "[a. 1686, Francesco Fulvio Frugoni, “Racconto nono [Ninth tale]”, in Il cane di Diogene [The dog of Diogenes], volume 4, Venice: Antonio Bosio, published 1687, Donne Impudiche in Istufa, page 397",
          "text": "Si trovano alcuni Sicofanti , che ſon fanti di coppe ſopra le carte, ma di coppe velenoſe , pur preſumono d’eſser Regi di fiori , ancorche non ſiano ſol che di fraſche, e di ſpine feraci.\n[Si trovano alcuni sicofanti, che son fanti di coppe sopra le carte, ma di coppe velenose, pur presumono d'esser regi di fiori, ancorché non siano sol che di frasche, e di spine feraci.]",
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  "lang": "Italian",
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          "english": "Therefore, there's no need to deem unbelievable those who say that taking figs outside of Attica was an ancient prohibition, and that the accusers of those taking them out were dubbed sycophants]",
          "ref": "[16ᵗʰ century [c. 2ⁿᵈ century], Marcello Adriani il Giovane, transl., Le vite parallele [The parallel lives], translation of Βίοι Παράλληλοι (Bíoi Parállēloi, “Parallel Lives”) by Πλούταρχος (Ploútarkhos, “Plutarch”); republished, “Solone [Solon]”, in volume 1, Florence: Felice Le Monnier, 1859, section XXIV, page 213",
          "roman": "ouk àn oûn tis hēgḗsaito pantelôs apithánous toùs légontas hóti kaì súkōn exagōgḕ tò palaiòn apeírēto, kaì tò phaínein endeiknúmenon toùs exágontas klēthênai sukophanteîn",
          "text": "Però non bisogna tor fede del tutto a quelli che dicono esser proibizione antica dello strarre fichi fuori dell’ Attica, e che gli accusatori degli straenti erano cognominati sicofanti.\n[original: οὐκ ἂν οὖν τις ἡγήσαιτο παντελῶς ἀπιθάνους τοὺς λέγοντας ὅτι καὶ σύκων ἐξαγωγὴ τὸ παλαιὸν ἀπείρητο, καὶ τὸ φαίνειν ἐνδεικνύμενον τοὺς ἐξάγοντας κληθῆναι συκοφαντεῖν]",
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          "ref": "[1849, “Sicofante”, in Dizionario politico, nuovamente compilato ad uso della gioventù italiana [Political dictionary, newly compiled for use by the Italian youth], Torino: G. Pomba e C. editori, page 652",
          "text": "Ai tempi di Aristofane e di Demostene la parola Sicofante indicava una persona di classe particolare, che non si può descrivere con un solo vocabolo nella nostra favella, ma il cui senso era assai bene inteso e valutato dagli Ateniesi.",
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          "ref": "19ᵗʰ century, Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi, I moderati; published in F. Bosio, editor, Scritti politici di F. D. Guerrazzi, Turin: M. Guigoni, 1862, page 431",
          "text": "Il popolo lo ricordi bene; giorno e notte se lo ripeta: cotesti Sicofanti gli ribadirono le catene che era vicino a spezzare.",
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          "ref": "1801, Melchiorre Cesarotti, Squarcio di lettera privata ad un amico lontano [Snippet of a private letter to a distant friend]; published in Prose di vario genere dell'abate Melchior Cesarotti, volume 1, Florence: Molini, Landi & comp., 1808, page 238",
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          "ref": "[a. 1686, Francesco Fulvio Frugoni, “Racconto nono [Ninth tale]”, in Il cane di Diogene [The dog of Diogenes], volume 4, Venice: Antonio Bosio, published 1687, Donne Impudiche in Istufa, page 397",
          "text": "Si trovano alcuni Sicofanti , che ſon fanti di coppe ſopra le carte, ma di coppe velenoſe , pur preſumono d’eſser Regi di fiori , ancorche non ſiano ſol che di fraſche, e di ſpine feraci.\n[Si trovano alcuni sicofanti, che son fanti di coppe sopra le carte, ma di coppe velenose, pur presumono d'esser regi di fiori, ancorché non siano sol che di frasche, e di spine feraci.]",
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}