plagiarize

English

Alternative forms

• plagiarise

Etymology

From plagiary +‎ -ize, ultimately from Latin plagiare (“to kidnap, to abduct”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpleɪd͡ʒəɹaɪz/, /ˈpleɪd͡ʒi.əɹaɪz/

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Verb

plagiarize (third-person singular simple present plagiarizes, present participle plagiarizing, simple past and past participle plagiarized)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To use, and pass off as one's own, someone else's writing, speech, ideas, or other intellectual or creative work, especially in an academic context; to commit plagiarism.

Related terms

• plagiarism

Translations

use, and pass off as one's own, someone else's writing/speech

• Arabic: اِنْتَحَلَ (intaḥala)
• Bulgarian: плагиатствам (bg) (plagiatstvam)
• Catalan: plagiar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 剽竊／剽窃 (zh) (piāoqiè), 抄襲／抄袭 (zh) (chāoxí)

• Esperanto: plagiati (eo)
• Finnish: plagioida (fi)
• French: plagier (fr)
• Galician: plaxiar
• German: plagiieren (de), geistigen Diebstahl begehen, abkupfern (de) (coll.), guttenbergen (neologism, humorously)
• Greek: λογοκλοπώ (el) (logoklopó)
• Gujarati: સાહિત્યચોરવું (sāhityacorvũ)
• Irish: bradaíl a dhéanamh
• Italian: plagiare (it)
• Maori: whānako kōrero
• Polish: plagiatować, zrzynać (coll.)
• Portuguese: plagiar (pt)
• Romanian: plagia (ro)
• Russian: занима́ться плагиа́том impf (zanimátʹsja plagiátom), спи́сывать (ru) impf (spísyvatʹ), списа́ть (ru) pf (spisátʹ) (of students)
• Spanish: plagiar (es), fusilar (es) (coll.)
• Swedish: plagiera (sv)
• Welsh: llên-ladrata