copier

English

Etymology

copy +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒpɪə/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑpiɚ/

Noun

copier (plural copiers)

1. A machine that copies graphical material; a duplicator.
2. A person who copies documents.
3. (computing) A program or process that copies.

   a file copier; a disk copier

Synonyms

• (machine): duplicator, copy machine, xerox machine, xerox, xeroxer
• (person): copyist (writing by hand); xeroxer (using a photocopier)

Hyponyms

(machine): (one particular kind of copier)

• laser copier
• photocopier
• xerox machine
• xerography machine

Translations

machine

• Armenian: պատճենահան (hy) (patčenahan)
• Catalan: copiadora f
• Czech: kopírka (cs) f
• Dutch: kopieerapparaat (nl)
• Finnish: kopiokone (fi)
• French: copieur (fr)
• German: Kopierer (de) m, Kopiergerät (de) n
• Greek: αντιγραφέας (el) m (antigraféas), αντιγραφικό μηχάνημα n (antigrafikó michánima), φωτοτυπικό μηχάνημα n (fototypikó michánima)
• Hungarian: fénymásoló (hu)
• Ido: duplikato (io)
• Macedonian: копир m (kopir)
• Portuguese: copiadora (pt) f, xerox (pt) m
• Swedish: kopiator (sv) c, kopieringsmaskin (sv) c, kopieringsapparat (sv) c

person

• Finnish: jäljentäjä, kopisti (fi)
• French: copiste (fr) m or f
• Greek: αντιγραφέας (el) m (antigraféas)
• Portuguese: copiador m

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin copiāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.pje/
• Homophones: copiai, copié, copiée, copiées, copiés, copiez

• Audio:

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Verb

copier

1. to copy

Conjugation

Conjugation of copier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	copier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	copiant /kɔ.pjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		copié /kɔ.pje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	copie /kɔ.pi/	copies /kɔ.pi/	copie /kɔ.pi/	copions /kɔ.pjɔ̃/	copiez /kɔ.pje/	copient /kɔ.pi/
	imperfect	copiais /kɔ.pjɛ/	copiais /kɔ.pjɛ/	copiait /kɔ.pjɛ/	copiions /kɔ.pi.jɔ̃/	copiiez /kɔ.pi.je/	copiaient /kɔ.pjɛ/
	past historic2	copiai /kɔ.pje/	copias /kɔ.pja/	copia /kɔ.pja/	copiâmes /kɔ.pjam/	copiâtes /kɔ.pjat/	copièrent /kɔ.pjɛʁ/
	future	copierai /kɔ.pi.ʁe/	copieras /kɔ.pi.ʁa/	copiera /kɔ.pi.ʁa/	copierons /kɔ.pi.ʁɔ̃/	copierez /kɔ.pi.ʁe/	copieront /kɔ.pi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	copierais /kɔ.pi.ʁɛ/	copierais /kɔ.pi.ʁɛ/	copierait /kɔ.pi.ʁɛ/	copierions /kɔ.pi.ʁjɔ̃/	copieriez /kɔ.pi.ʁje/	copieraient /kɔ.pi.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	copie /kɔ.pi/	copies /kɔ.pi/	copie /kɔ.pi/	copiions /kɔ.pi.jɔ̃/	copiiez /kɔ.pi.je/	copient /kɔ.pi/
	imperfect2	copiasse /kɔ.pjas/	copiasses /kɔ.pjas/	copiât /kɔ.pja/	copiassions /kɔ.pja.sjɔ̃/	copiassiez /kɔ.pja.sje/	copiassent /kɔ.pjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	copie /kɔ.pi/	—	copions /kɔ.pjɔ̃/	copiez /kɔ.pje/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• photocopier
• télécopier

 

Descendants

• → Romanian: copia

Further reading

• “copier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• picore, picoré

Norman

Etymology

From Medieval Latin copiāre.

Verb

copier

1. (Jersey) to copy (produce an object identical to a given object)