Dictionary

plagiator en · NOUN

Etymology

From Dutch plagiator and German Plagiator, from Latin plagiātor.

Meanings

1. (uncommon) Synonym of plagiarist.
   • Intentional plagiators behave less naïve and try to hide their action by using other phrases or by using rare sources etc. 2013, Johannes Balve, “Intellectual Property, Ideology and Culture in Higher Education”, in Michael A[drian] Peters, Tina Besley, editors, The Creative University, Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, →ISBN, page 89:
   • Until approximately hundred years ago, researchers had to make do with these rumors peddled by the Church-Fathers and their plagiators – including even some texts in the Bible that have been arbitrarily redacted to a smaller or larger extent. 2020, M.P. Steiner, editor, Interrogatio Iohannis (The Secret Book of the Cathars) and Apokryphon Iohannis (The Secret Book of John), Edition Oriflamme, →ISBN, page 35:
   • Moreover, it harms others’ careers when plagiators are recognized and cited instead of the original authors. 2019, Gideon J[an] Mellenbergh, Counteracting Methodological Errors in Behavioral Research, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, →ISBN, page 360:
   • Universal poets and artists are either plagiators or brutes. 2014, Josette Baer, Revolution, Modus Vivendi, or Sovereignty? The Political Thought of the Slovak National Movement from 1861 to 1914, Stuttgart: ibidem Press, →ISBN, page 162:

Forms

Synonyms

plagiarist