Etymology

microplagiarism

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Today it means: A kind of plagiarism which uses relatively short sections of arbitrary sources and combines them to form a larger, seemingly unified text. Full definition →

English plagiarism ← Latin plagiārius ← Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ-
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*mey-der.?
  2. Ancient Greekμῑκρός (mīkrós)
  3. Ancient Greekμῑκρο- (mīkro-)
  4. Englishmicro-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*pel-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*pleḱ-
  7. Latinplagium
  8. Latinplagiārius
  9. Englishplagiary
  10. Englishplagiarism
  11. English todaymicroplagiarism

From micro- + plagiarism.

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