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plagio-

  1. a combining form meaning “oblique,” used in the formation of compound words:

    plagioclase.



plagio-

combining_form

  1. slanting, inclining, or oblique

    plagiotropism

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of plagio-1

Combining form representing Greek plágios slanting, sideways, equivalent to plág ( os ) side + -ios adj. suffix
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Word History and Origins

Origin of plagio-1

from Greek plagios, from plagos side
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Example Sentences

Later, it became a specific reference to the abduction of children, and is still cited as such in Scottish law, while another derivative, plagio, formerly a statute in Italian law, is loosely translated as brainwashing: the subjugation of another’s mind, bending it to one’s will.

Dramatically Mr. Sagi is intrigued by the supporting character of a playwright, Plagio — as in plagiarism? — who hangs around Figaro in hopes of pointers for a comedy he is writing.

Crenius wrote a dissertation De Furibus Librariis, and J. Conrad Schwarz another De Plagio Literario, in which some curious appropriations are pointed out; your pages have already contained some additional recent instances.

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