Plagiary
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /ˈpleɪdʒ(ɪ)əɹi/
Alternative forms
- plagiarie 16th-17th c.
Origin
From Latin plagiÄrius ("kidnapper, plagiarist"), from plagium ("kidnapping"), probably from plaga ("a net, snare, trap").
Full definition of plagiary
Noun
plagiary
(plural plagiaries)- (archaic) A plagiarist.
- (obsolete) A kidnapper.
- The crime of literary theft; plagiarism.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.6:Plagiarie had not its nativity with Printing, but began in times when thefts were difficult, and the paucity of Books scarce wanted that Invention.