plágio
Portuguese, noun
plágio is spelled P-L-Á-G-I-O (6 letters) and appears 3.0 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 17,223rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Plágio is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “plagiarism (act of plagiarising)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, plagio is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of plagiar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato ou efeito de plagiar”.
What does plágio mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineplagiarism (act of plagiarising)
- 2
masculineplagiarism (something plagiarised)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of plagiar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ato ou efeito de plagiar 2. apresentação feita por alguém, como de sua própria autoria, de trabalho, obra intelectual etc. produzido por outrem
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of plágio
- plágios plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to plágio
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is plágio in Portuguese?
plágio appears 3.0 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).