spione - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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• 1 Italian
  • 1.1 Etymology
  • 1.2 Pronunciation
  • 1.3 Noun
    * 1.3.1 Synonyms
    * 1.3.2 Descendants
  • 1.4 Further reading
  • 1.5 Anagrams

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From Vulgar Latin *spiō, from Frankish *spehō (“spy”), from Frankish *spehōn (“to spy”). By surface analysis, spiare (“to spy”) +‎ -one.

• IPA(key): /spiˈo.ne/
• Rhymes: -one
• Hyphenation: spi‧ó‧ne

spione m (plural spioni, feminine spiona)

1. sneak, telltale
2. (slang) peeper

• sicofante
• delatore
• canarino
• → French: espion (or perhaps only influenced by Italian)
  • → Basque: espioi
  • → German: Spion (or directly from Italian)
  • → Norman: espion
  • → Portuguese: espião
  • → Turkish: ispiyon
• → Greek: σπιούνος (spioúnos)
• spione in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• spione in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• spione in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• spióne in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• spïóne in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• Sepino, esponi, opsine, penosi, pesino

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• Italian terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
• Italian terms derived from Vulgar Latin
• Italian terms derived from Frankish
• Italian terms suffixed with -one
• Italian 3-syllable words
• Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
• Rhymes:Italian/one
• Rhymes:Italian/one/3 syllables
• Italian lemmas
• Italian nouns
• Italian countable nouns
• Italian masculine nouns
• Italian slang