plagiarism

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pel-

Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ-der.

Latin plagium

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-os?

Proto-Indo-European *-o-

Proto-Indo-European *-so-

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-āsijos

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -ārius

Latin plagiārius

English plagiary

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Indo-European *-mos

Proto-Indo-European *-mós

Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)

Ancient Greek -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)der.

English -ism

English plagiarism

From plagiary + -ism.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈpleɪd͡ʒəɹɪzəm/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈplæɪd͡ʒəɹɪzəm/

Noun

plagiarism (countable and uncountable, plural plagiarisms)

1. (uncountable) Copying of another person's ideas, text, or other creative work, and presenting it as one's own, especially without permission; plagiarizing.

   Even if it's not illegal, plagiarism is usually frowned upon.

   Copy from one, it's plagiarism. Copy from two, it's research.

2. (uncountable) Text or other work resulting from this act.

   The novel was awash in plagiarism, with entire passages lifted verbatim.

3. (countable) The instance of plagiarism.

Derived terms

• AIgiarism
• antiplagiarism
• autoplagiarism
• cyberplagiarism
• mosaic plagiarism
• patchwork plagiarism
• plagiarhythm
• self-plagiarism

Related terms

• microplagiarism
• plagiarist
• plagiarize

Translations

copying of someone's ideas

• Arabic: اِنْتِحال m (intiḥāl)
• Armenian: գրագողություն (hy) (gragoġutʻyun), բանագողություն (hy) (banagoġutʻyun)
• Belarusian: плагія́т m (plahiját)
• Bengali: কুম্ভীলকবৃত্তি (bn) (kumbhīlôkbritti)
• Bulgarian: плагиа́тство (bg) n (plagiátstvo), плагиа́т (bg) m (plagiát)
• Catalan: plagi (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 剽竊 / 剽窃 (piu³ sit³, piu⁵ sit³), 抄襲 / 抄袭 (caau¹ zaap⁶)

  Hokkien: 偷抾 (thau-khioh), 抄襲 / 抄袭 (zh-min-nan) (chhau-si̍p)

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

• Czech: plagiátorství (cs) n, plagiát (cs) m
• Danish: plagiat (da) n
• Dutch: plagiaat (nl) n
• Esperanto: plagiato
• Estonian: plagiaat
• Faroese: ritstuldur
• Finnish: plagiointi (fi)
• French: plagiat (fr) m
• Galician: plaxio (gl) m
• Georgian: პლაგიატი (ka) (ṗlagiaṭi)
• German: Plagiat (de) n
• Greek: λογοκλοπή (el) f (logoklopí)
• Icelandic: ritstuldur m
• Indonesian: plagiat (id), plagiarisme (id)
• Italian: plagio (it) m
• Japanese: 剽窃 (ja) (ひょうせつ, hyōsetsu), 盗作 (ja) (とうさく, tōsaku), パクリ (ja) (pakuri)
• Kazakh: плагиат (plagıyat)
• Korean: 표절 (ko) (pyojeol), 도작 (dojak)
• Kyrgyz: плагиат (plagiat)
• Latvian: plaģiāts m
• Lithuanian: plagiatas m, plagijavimas m
• Macedonian: плагијат m (plagijat)
• Malay: plagiat (ms)
• Norwegian: plagiat n
• Occitan: plagiat (oc) m
• Persian: دستبرد فکری (dastbord-e fekri)
• Polish: plagiat (pl) m
• Portuguese: plágio (pt) m
• Romanian: plagiat (ro) n, plagiere (ro) f
• Russian: плагиа́т (ru) m (plagiát)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: плагијат m

  Latin: plagijat (sh) m

• Slovak: plagiátorstvo n, plagiát m
• Slovene: plagiatorstvo n, plagiat m
• Spanish: plagio (es) m
• Swedish: plagiering (sv) c, plagiat (sv) n
• Tagalog: nakaw-akda, plahiyo
• Thai: การคัดลอกผลงาน (gāan-kát-lɔ̂ɔk-pǒn-ngāan)
• Turkish: intihal (tr), arakasyon

  Ottoman Turkish: انتحال (intihal), سلخ (selh)

• Ukrainian: плагіа́т m (plahiát)
• Urdu: ادبی سرقہ (adabī-sarqa), سرقہ (sarqa)
• Uzbek: plagiat (uz)
• Vietnamese: đạo văn (vi)

act of plagiarizing or something plagiarized

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 剽竊物 / 剽窃物 (piāoqièwù), 抄襲物 / 抄袭物 (chāoxíwù)

• Czech: plagiát (cs) m (work resulting from plagiarism)
• Finnish: plagiaatti (fi)
• French: plagiat (fr) m
• German: Plagiat (de) n
• Italian: copiatura (it) f, imitazione (it) f
• Japanese: 剽窃 (ja) (ひょうせつ, hyōsetsu), 盗作 (ja) (とうさく, tōsaku)
• Norwegian: plagiat n
• Occitan: plagiat (oc) m
• Polish: plagiat (pl) m
• Portuguese: plágio (pt) m
• Romanian: plagiat (ro) n, plagiere (ro) f
• Russian: плагиа́т (ru) m (plagiát)
• Spanish: plagio (es) m
• Swedish: plagiat (sv) n, plagiering (sv) c
• Turkish: arakasyon

  Ottoman Turkish: سلخ (selh)

Further reading

• “plagiarism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “plagiarism”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.