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’).