plagiarize

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin plagiare (“to kidnap, to abduct”)

Alternative forms

• plagiarise

Verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To use, and pass off as one's own, someone else's writing/speech.

Translations

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

• Catalan: plagiar (ca)
• Chinese:

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

• Esperanto: plagiati (eo)
• Finnish: plagioida (fi)
• French: plagier (fr)
• German: plagiieren (de), geistigen Diebstahl begehen, abkupfern (de), guttenbergen (neologism)
• Gujarati: સાહિત્યચોરવું (sāhityacorvũ)
• Irish: bradaíl a dhéanamh
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: plagiare (it)
• Maori: whānako kōrero
• 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) (colloquial)
• Swedish: plagiera (sv)
• Welsh: llên-ladrata