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plagiarise

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.37 in modern English

Syllables
pla-gia-rise
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of plagiarize.

British usage

Etymology

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

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

plagiarises (present, singular) plagiarising (participle, present) plagiarised (participle, past) plagiarised (past)

Derived Forms

plagiarisation plagiariser

Synonyms

plagiarize lift

Questions

What does plagiarise mean?
Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of plagiarize.
Where does plagiarise come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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