köken: A blend of ciarlatore (“chatterer”) (see ciarlare (“to chatter”)) + cerretano (“hawker, quack”, literally “native of Cerreto”) (Cerreto di Spoleto being a village in Umbria, known for its quacks).
a wandering salesman · a charlatan · a medical student drafted as an army physician, who is inexperienced and generally lacks medical expertise
köken: 돌— (dol-, “to wander”) + 팔— (pal-, “to sell”) + -이 (-i, noun-deriving suffix). The original sense is possibly archaic, and a folk etymology now claims that the first element is 돌 (dol, “stone”), with the idea that a charlatan is someone who sells stones pretending that they are something else.
köken: Via German Scharlatan (“charlatan; quack”), from French charlatan (“charlatan; quack”), from Italian ciarlatano (“charlatan; quack”), a blend of ciarlatore (“chatterer”) + cerretano (“hawker, quack”, literally “native of Cerreto”).
köken: From Ancient Greek μάγος (mágos, “magician”), from Μάγος (Mágos, “Magian”), of an indeterminate Old Iranian origin (see Μάγος (Mágos) for details).