phishing
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Respelling of fishing (“trying to find”). In Usenet newsgroups, cracker and pirate groups used variant spellings of phish and warez (i.e. wares) to evade scans and filters by mainstream servers policing the ARPAnet/Internet. Compare other respelling slang like phat and phreak.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɪʃɪŋ
Noun[edit]
phishing (uncountable)
- (computing) The malicious act of keeping a false website or sending a false e-mail with the intent of masquerading as a trustworthy entity in order to acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details.
- The act of circumventing security with an alias.
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Verb[edit]
phishing
- present participle and gerund of phish
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from English phishing.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
phishing (slang)
Declension[edit]
Inflection of phishing (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | phishing | phishingit | ||
genitive | phishingin | phishingien | ||
partitive | phishingiä | phishingejä | ||
illative | phishingiin | phishingeihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | phishing | phishingit | ||
accusative | nom. | phishing | phishingit | |
gen. | phishingin | |||
genitive | phishingin | phishingien | ||
partitive | phishingiä | phishingejä | ||
inessive | phishingissä | phishingeissä | ||
elative | phishingistä | phishingeistä | ||
illative | phishingiin | phishingeihin | ||
adessive | phishingillä | phishingeillä | ||
ablative | phishingiltä | phishingeiltä | ||
allative | phishingille | phishingeille | ||
essive | phishinginä | phishingeinä | ||
translative | phishingiksi | phishingeiksi | ||
abessive | phishingittä | phishingeittä | ||
instructive | — | phishingein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Further reading[edit]
- “phishing”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from English phishing.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
phishing m (uncountable)
- (computer security) phishing (the act of sending email that falsely claims to be from a legitimate organisation)
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from English phishing.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
phishing m (uncountable)
Usage notes[edit]
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.
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- English terms with homophones
- Rhymes:English/ɪʃɪŋ
- Rhymes:English/ɪʃɪŋ/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Computing
- English non-lemma forms
- English verb forms
- English Usenet slang
- en:Computer security
- Finnish terms borrowed from English
- Finnish unadapted borrowings from English
- Finnish terms derived from English
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish slang
- Finnish risti-type nominals
- Portuguese terms borrowed from English
- Portuguese unadapted borrowings from English
- Portuguese terms derived from English
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese uncountable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- pt:Computer security
- Spanish terms borrowed from English
- Spanish unadapted borrowings from English
- Spanish terms derived from English
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/iʃin
- Rhymes:Spanish/iʃin/2 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish uncountable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- es:Computing