plagium

From Latin plagium (“kidnapping”), compare plagiarism, probably from plaga (“a net, snare, trap”).

plagium (usually uncountable, plural plagiums)

1. (obsolete, law) kidnapping, especially of a child

• OED 2nd edition 1989

Probably from or related to plaga (“hunting net”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to weave”). See also plectō (“I weave”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.ɡi.um/, [ˈpɫa.ɡi.ũ]

plagium n (genitive plagiī or plagī); second declension

1. manstealing, kidnapping, the selling of freemen as slaves

Second declension.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• plagiārius
• plagiātīcius
• plagiātor
• plagiō

• French: plagiat
• Italian: plagio
• Portuguese: plágio
• Spanish: plagio

• plagium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• plagium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• plagium in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• plagium in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press