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means To make a duplicate of something, or the duplicate itself — a reproduction meant to match the original.

from From Latin 'copia,' meaning abundance or plenty. The leap from 'plenty' to 'copy' happened through the phrase 'copiam facere' — to make plenty, as in making multiple versions of a written text. By the time it settled into French and then English, 'copy' had narrowed from 'abundance of something' to 'one more instance of this specific thing' — the word quietly shifted from quantity to replication.