Copies

Part of speech: noun, verb

Pronunciation: /ˈkɑpiz/

Definitions

1. A series of reproductions created to resemble an original document or entity
2. A set of duplicates designed to faithfully replicate the content, structure, or essence of the source material
3. Replications made to match an original closely in appearance or content ; the act of creating such replications from a source

Etymology: "Copies" is the plural of "copy," a noun that began as a word for abundance. Its Latin ancestor, "cōpia," meant "plenty" or "abundance," formed from "co-" ("together") and "ops" ("wealth, riches"), so the root idea was a great store of goods gathered together. The sense of reproducing a text came later: in Medieval Latin, "copia" also came to mean a transcript, an abundance of written versions of something, and that sense passed into Old French as "copie" before reaching English in the Middle Ages. The verb "copy," which gives us the sense of making something similar, comes from Old French "copier," which in turn derives from Medieval Latin "copiō." The noun and verb developed in parallel, so the modern idea of a faithful duplicate grew out of the older notion of an overflowing supply. Plural "copies" simply names more than one such duplicate.

Synonyms: duplicates, reproductions, replicas