spyware

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English spy

Proto-Indo-European *sem-

Proto-Germanic *samþuz / *samftuz

Proto-Germanic *-jaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ī

Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī)

Old English sōfte

Middle English softe

English soft

Proto-Germanic *warō

Proto-West Germanic *waru

Old English waru

Middle English ware

English -ware

English softwarebf.

English -ware

English spyware

From spy + -ware.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

spyware (uncountable)

1. (Internet) Programs that surreptitiously monitor and report the actions of a computer user. [from 1990s]
   • 2017 December, 5:24 from the start, in Interview with hacktivist Jaromil‎^[1], ArtEZ studium generale:

     In the end of the 90s we call^[sic] this software spyware, there was a term for it, and now we don't use this term anymore because most of the software that we use is spyware […]

Related terms

• abandonware
• adware
• antispyware
• baitware
• bloatware
• crippleware
• demoware
• donationware
• freeware
• malware
• postcardware
• shareware
• software
• trialware

Translations

program

• Arabic: بَرَامِج تَجَسُّس m pl (barāmij tajassus)
• Armenian: լրտեսածրագիր (lrtesacragir)
• Azerbaijani: casus proqram
• Belarusian: шпіёнскае праграмнае забеспячэнне n (špijónskaje prahramnaje zabjespjačennje)
• Catalan: programari espia
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 間諜軟件 / 间谍软件 (zh) (jiàndié ruǎnjiàn); 間諜軟體 / 间谍软体 (jiàndié ruǎntǐ)

• Czech: špehovací software m, spyware m
• Danish: spionprogram n
• Dutch: spyware (nl) m
• Estonian: nuhkvara
• Finnish: vakoiluohjelma
• French: logiciel espion (fr) m, espiogiciel (fr) m
• Georgian: ჯაშუში პროგრამა (ǯašuši ṗrograma), ჯაშუშური პროგრამა (ǯašušuri ṗrograma)
• German: Spyware (de) f, Spionagesoftware (de) f
• Hebrew: רוגלה f
• Hungarian: kémszoftver (hu), kémprogram (hu)
• Indonesian: perangkat pengintai, peranti intai
• Italian: spyware (it) m
• Japanese: スパイウェア (ja) (supaiwea)
• Korean: 스파이웨어 (seupaiweeo)
• Latvian: spiegprogrammatūra f
• Macedonian: шпионски софтвер m (špionski softver)
• Malay: perisian pengintip, perisian perisik, perisian intip
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: spionprogramvare m or f, spionprogram n, spyware m

  Nynorsk: spionprogramvare f, spionprogram n

• Persian: نرم افزارهای جاسوسی
• Polish: oprogramowanie szpiegujące n, oprogramowanie szpiegowskie n
• Portuguese: spyware m
• Romanian: program spion n
• Russian: шпио́нское ПО n (špiónskoje PO), шпио́нское програ́ммное обеспече́ние n (špiónskoje prográmmnoje obespečénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шпѝјӯнски со̏фтве̄р m, спајвер m

  Latin: špìjūnski sȍftvēr m, spajver (sh) m

• Slovak: špehovací softvér m, špionážny softvér m, spyware (sk) m, spajvér m
• Slovene: vohunska programska oprema f, vohunsko programje n
• Spanish: software espía m, programa espía m
• Swedish: spionprogram (sv) n
• Thai: ซอฟต์แวร์สอดแนม (sôfwae sòt-naem)
• Turkish: casus yazılım
• Turkmen: içaly programma üpjünçiligi
• Vietnamese: phần mềm gián điệp
• Welsh: ysbïwedd f

Further reading

• spyware on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• yawpers

Czech

Etymology

Etymology tree

English spy

Proto-Indo-European *sem-

Proto-Germanic *samþuz / *samftuz

Proto-Germanic *-jaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ī

Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī)

Old English sōfte

Middle English softe

English soft

Proto-Germanic *warō

Proto-West Germanic *waru

Old English waru

Middle English ware

English -ware

English softwarebf.

English -ware

English spywarebor.

Czech spyware

Borrowed from English spyware.

Noun

spyware m inan

1. (computing) spyware (malicious program that monitors and reports activity)

   Synonyms: špionážní software; (rare) špehovací software

Declension

Declension of spyware (hard masculine inanimate foreign)

	singular	plural
nominative	spyware	spywary
genitive	spywaru	spywarů
dative	spywaru	spywarům
accusative	spyware	spywary
vocative	spyware	spywary
locative	spywaru	spywarech
instrumental	spywarem	spywary

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

English spy

Proto-Indo-European *sem-

Proto-Germanic *samþuz / *samftuz

Proto-Germanic *-jaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ī

Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī)

Old English sōfte

Middle English softe

English soft

Proto-Germanic *warō

Proto-West Germanic *waru

Old English waru

Middle English ware

English -ware

English softwarebf.

English -ware

English spywareubor.

Portuguese spyware

Unadapted borrowing from English spyware.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈspaj.wɛɾ/

Noun

spyware m (plural spywares)

1. (computing) spyware (malicious program that monitors and reports activity)

Derived terms

• antispyware

Slovak

Alternative forms

• spajvér

Etymology

Etymology tree

English spy

Proto-Indo-European *sem-

Proto-Germanic *samþuz / *samftuz

Proto-Germanic *-jaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ī

Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī)

Old English sōfte

Middle English softe

English soft

Proto-Germanic *warō

Proto-West Germanic *waru

Old English waru

Middle English ware

English -ware

English softwarebf.

English -ware

English spywareubor.

Slovak spyware

Unadapted borrowing from English spyware.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spajveːr/, [ˈspaɪ̯ʋeːr]
• Rhymes: -ajveːr
• Hyphenation: spy‧ware

Noun

spyware m inan (relational adjective spywarový)

1. (computing) spyware (malicious program that monitors and reports activity)

   Synonyms: špehovací softvér, špionážny softvér

Declension

Declension of spyware
(pattern dub)

	singular	plural
nominative	spyware	spywary
genitive	spywaru	spywarov
dative	spywaru	spywarom
accusative	spyware	spywary
locative	spyware, spywari	spywaroch
instrumental	spywarom	spywarmi

Further reading

• “spyware”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

English spy

Proto-Indo-European *sem-

Proto-Germanic *samþuz / *samftuz

Proto-Germanic *-jaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ī

Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī)

Old English sōfte

Middle English softe

English soft

Proto-Germanic *warō

Proto-West Germanic *waru

Old English waru

Middle English ware

English -ware

English softwarebf.

English -ware

English spywareubor.

Spanish spyware

Unadapted borrowing from English spyware.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈspaiweɾ/ [ˈspai̯.weɾ], /esˈpaiweɾ/ [esˈpai̯.weɾ]
• Rhymes: -aiweɾ

Noun

spyware m (plural spywares)

1. spyware

   Synonyms: software espía, programa espía

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.