copist

From French copiste. See copy.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒpɪst/

copist (plural copists)

1. (obsolete) A copier; one who copies.
   • 1710, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, Soliloquy: or, Advice to an Author:

     […] whether the Writer be Poet, Philosopher, or of whatever kind, he is in truth no other than a copist after NATURE.

2. Misspelling of copyist.

• copyist

• “copist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• cops it, optics, picots, postic, topics

Borrowed from French copiste.

copist m (plural copiști, feminine equivalent copistă)

1. copyist
2. clerk

• “copist”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025