copier
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɒpɪə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈkɑpiɚ/
Noun
copier (plural copiers)
- A machine that copies graphical material; a duplicator.
- A person who copies documents.
- (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
Translations
machine
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person
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin copiāre.
Pronunciation
Verb
copier
- 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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Romanian: copia
Further reading
- “copier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Norman
Etymology
From Medieval Latin copiāre.
Verb
copier