sycophantia

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σῡκοφᾰντῐ́ᾱ (sūkophăntĭ́ā).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [syː.kɔˈpʰan.ti.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [si.koˈfan.t͡si.a]

sȳcophantia f (genitive sȳcophantiae); first declension (Plautine)

1. (countable) a cunning, deceit, trick

   Synonyms: dolus, fraus

   • c. 209 BCE, Plautus, Asinaria 1.1.55–56:

     neque puduit eum id aetatis sycophantias
     struere et beneficiis me emere gnatum suom sibi.

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   • c. 194 BCE, Plautus, Poenulus 3.3.38–40:

     Adiit ad nos extemplo exiens;
     salutat, respondemus. ― Mortalis malos,
     ut ingrediuntur docte in sycophantiam.

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   • c. 191 BCE, Plautus, Pseudolus 1.5.113–116:

     Em ab hoc lenone vicino tuo
     per sycophantiam atque per doctos dolos
     tibicinam illam, tuos quam gnatus deperit,
     ea circumducam lepide lenonem.

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   • c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides 4.4.98–100:

     Nunc, pater mi, proin tu ab eo ut caveas tibi,
     sycophantias componit, aurum ut abs ted auferat;
     et profecto se ablaturum dixit.

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First-declension noun.

• sȳcophantiōsē

• “sȳcŏphantīa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sȳcŏphantĭa”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.