charlatan

See also charlatán

English

Etymology

From Middle French charlatan, from Italian ciarlatano (“quack”), a blend of ciarlatore (“a chatterer”) and cerretano (“a hawker, quack”), literally, a native of Cerreto, a village in Umbria, known for its quacks.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ˈʃɑɹlətən/

Noun

charlatan (plural charlatans)

1. A malicious trickster; a fake person, especially one who deceives for personal profit.

Synonyms

• swindler
• mountebank
• fraudster
• con-artist
• con-man
• imposter, impostor
• fraud
• phony
• fake
• See also Wikisaurus:deceiver

Related terms

• charlatanism
• charlatanry

Translations

malicious trickster

Armenian: ընդվայրաբան (hy) (ëndvayraban), շառլատան (hy) (šaṙlatan) Bulgarian: шарлатанин (bg) m. Czech: šarlatán (cs) m. Dutch: charlatan (nl) m. Finnish: huijari (fi), puoskari (fi) German: Scharlatan (de) m. Hebrew: שרלטן (he) (šarletan) m. Hungarian: sarlatán (hu)

Indonesian: penipu (id) Italian: ciarlatano (it) m. Polish: szarlatan (pl) m. Portuguese: charlatão (pt) m. Russian: шарлатан (ru) (šarlatán) m. Spanish: charlatán (es) m. Turkish: şarlatan (tr)

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French

Etymology

From Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʃaʁ.la.tɑ̃/

• charlatan

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Noun

charlatan m. (plural charlatans; feminine charlatane, plural charlatanes)

1. charlatan