— charlatanic /shahr'leuh tan"ik/ , charlatanical, charlatanish, charlatanistic , adj. — charlatanically , adv.
/shahr"leuh tn/ , n.
a person who pretends to more knowledge or skill than he or she possesses; quack.
[ 1595-1605; ciarlatano, equiv. to ciarla ( tore ) chatterer (deriv. of ciarlare to chatter; from imit. root) + ( cerre ) tano hawker, quack, lit., native of Cerreto, a village in Umbria, known for its quacks ]
Syn . impostor, mountebank, fraud, fake, phony.