different between kidnapper vs plagiary

English

Alternative forms

• kidnaper

Etymology

kidnap +? -er

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?dnæp?/

Noun

kidnapper (plural kidnappers)

1. A person who kidnaps someone.

Derived terms

• catnapper
• dognapper
• petnapper

Related terms

• kidnap

Translations

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

kidnapper m (plural kidnappers, diminutive kidnappertje n)

1. A person who kidnaps someone.

Synonyms

• ontvoerder

Related terms

• schaker

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English kidnap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kid.na.pe/

Verb

kidnapper

1. to kidnap

Conjugation

Further reading

• “kidnapper” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English kidnapper.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kid?nap?r/
• Rhymes: -ap?r

Noun

kidnapper m (definite singular kidnapperen, indefinite plural kidnappere, definite plural kidnapperne)

1. a kidnapper

Related terms

• kidnappe
• kidnapping

See also

• kidnappar (Nynorsk)

Etymology 2

Verb

kidnapper

1. present of kidnappe

References

• “kidnapper” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

English

Alternative forms

• plagiarie [16th-17th c.]

Etymology

From Latin plagi?rius (“kidnapper, plagiarist”), from plagium (“kidnapping”), probably from plaga (“a net, snare, trap”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ple?d?(?)??i/

Noun

plagiary (countable and uncountable, plural plagiaries)

1. (archaic) A plagiarist.
   • 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy

     Without Invention a Painter is but a Copier, and a Poet but a Plagiary of others.

2. (obsolete) A kidnapper.
3. 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.

   • accounted Plagiary

Derived terms

• plagiarism
• plagiarist

Adjective

plagiary (not comparable)

1. (archaic) plagiarizing
   • 1863, The Home and Foreign Review (issue 5, page 87)

     The busy bee is his classical device, and the simile confesses and justifies his plundering propensities; but the plagiary poet who steals ideas is represented by another insect, […]

Further reading

• plagiary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• plagiary in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.