copier

English

Etymology

From 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

Derived terms

• microcopier
• telecopier

 

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:

  (file)

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)