n.
 (pl. copies)
   - a thing made to be similar or identical to another.
 - a single specimen of a particular book, record, etc.
 - matter to be printed. 
▸material for a newspaper or magazine article.
 
v.
 (copies, copying, copied)
  - make a copy of.
 - imitate the behaviour or style of.
 
 
  Etymology
  ME: from OFr. copie (n.), copier (v.), from L. copia ‘abundance’ (in med. L. ‘transcript’, from such phrs as copiam describendi facere ‘give permission to transcribe’).