different between imitator vs copier

English

Alternative forms

• imitatour (obsolete)

Etymology

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Noun

imitator (plural imitators)

1. One who imitates or apes another.

   Synonym: aper

Related terms

• imitate

Translations

Anagrams

• Mariotti, Timariot

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /i.mi?ta?.tor/, [?m??t?ä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /i.mi?ta.tor/, [imi?t???t??r]

Noun

imit?tor m (genitive imit?t?ris); third declension

1. imitator
2. mimic

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

Verb

imit?tor

1. second-person singular future active imperative of imitor
2. third-person singular future active imperative of imitor

References

• imitator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• imitator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• imitator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin imitator

Noun

imitator m (definite singular imitatoren, indefinite plural imitatorer, definite plural imitatorene)

1. an imitator

Related terms

• imitere

References

• “imitator” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “imitator” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin imitator

Noun

imitator m (definite singular imitatoren, indefinite plural imitatorar, definite plural imitatorane)

1. an imitator

Related terms

• imitere

References

• “imitator” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

From French imitateur.

Noun

imitator m (plural imitatori)

1. copycat

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /im?ta?tor/
• Hyphenation: i?mi?ta?tor

Noun

imìt?tor m (Cyrillic spelling ?????????)

1. imitator

Declension

English

Etymology

copy +? -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?p??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?pi?/

Noun

copier (plural copiers)

1. A machine that copies graphical material; a duplicator.
2. A person who copies documents.
3. (computing) A program or process that copies.

   a file copier; a disk copier

Synonyms

• (machine): duplicator, copy machine, xerox machine, xerox, xeroxer
• (person): copyist (writing by hand); xeroxer (using a photocopier)

Hyponyms

(machine): (one particular kind of copier)

• photocopier
• xerox machine
• xerography machine

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin copi?, copi?re.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.pje/

Verb

copier

1. to copy

Conjugation

Descendants

• ? Romanian: copia

Further reading

• “copier” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• picore, picoré

Norman

Etymology

From Medieval Latin copi?re.

Verb

copier

1. (Jersey) to copy (produce an object identical to a given object)