photocopier

English

A Konica Minolta photocopier with an automatic document feeder in use at the School of Law, Singapore Management University

A modern Fuji Xerox photocopier in Taiwan

Etymology

From photocopy +‎ -er.

Noun

photocopier (plural photocopiers)

1. A machine which reproduces documents by photographing the original over a glass plate and printing duplicates.
   • 1998 December 18, Peter Margasak, “Punk Planet's New Atmosphere”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     Now the chintzy nameplate is all that distinguishes his work space from those of the photocopier repairperson, diet food company, and kitchen designer down the hall.

Synonyms

• (by ellipsis) copier
• photoduplicator

Hyponyms

• xerox machine
• xerography machine

Derived terms

• laser copier
• digital copier

Translations

machine which reproduces documents by photographing the original over a glass plate and printing duplicates

• Arabic: نَاسِخَة f (nāsiḵa)
• Armenian: պատճենահան (hy) (patčenahan), քսերոքս (kʻserokʻs) (colloquial)
• Asturian: fotocopiadora f
• Basque: fotokopiagailu
• Bengali: আলোক চিত্রানুলিপিকারক (alōk citranulipikarok), আলোক চিত্রানুলিপি যন্ত্র (alōk citranulipi jontro)
• Burmese: မိတ္တူကူးစက် (my) (mittuku:cak)
• Catalan: fotocopiadora (ca) f
• Cherokee: ᎤᏠᏯ ᏗᏟᎶᏍᏗᏍᎩ (utloya ditlilosdisgi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 影印機／影印机 (jing² jan³ gei¹)

  Mandarin: 複印機／复印机 (zh) (fùyìnjī) (China mainland), 影印機／影印机 (zh) (yǐngyìnjī) (Taiwan)

• Cornish: liesskrifell f
• Czech: kopírka (cs) f
• Danish: kopimaskine (da) c, fotokopimaskine c
• Esperanto: kopiilo
• Finnish: kopiokone (fi), valokopiokone
• French: photocopieur (fr) m, photocopieuse (fr) f
• Galician: fotocopiadora (gl) f
• German: Fotokopierer m
• Greek: φωτοτυπικό (el) n (fototypikó)
• Hebrew: מְכוֹנַת צִלּוּם / מכונת צילום (he) f (mekhonát tsilúm)
• Hungarian: fénymásoló (hu), fénymásoló gép
• Icelandic: ljósritunarvél
• Inuktitut: ᐊᒥᐃᐅᓕᐅᕈ (amiiolioro)
• Irish: fótachóipeálaí m, fótachóipire m, gléas fótachóipeála m
• Italian: fotocopiatrice (it) f
• Japanese: 複写機 (ja) (ふくしゃき, fukushaki), コピー機 (ja) (コピーき, kopīki)
• Kazakh: еселегіш құрылғы (eselegış qūrylğy)
• Korean: 복사기(複寫機) (ko) (boksagi)
• Macedonian: фотоко́пир m (fotokópir)
• Malay: mesin fotokopi, mesin fotostat
• Malayalam: കോപിയർ (kōpiyaṟ)
• Maori: mīhini whakaahua, pūrere whakaahua
• Mongolian: хувилуур (xuviluur)
• Norman: photocopieu m
• Polish: kserokopiarka (pl) f, fotokopiarka f, kserograf (pl) m, ksero (pl) n
• Portuguese: xerox (pt) m, copiadora (pt) f
• Russian: (formally) фотокопирова́льное устро́йство n (fotokopiroválʹnoje ustrójstvo), копирова́льный аппара́т (ru) m (kopiroválʹnyj apparát), ксе́рокс (ru) m (kséroks), копи́р (ru) m (kopír)
• Spanish: fotocopiadora (es) f, copiadora (es) f
• Swahili: kirudufu
• Swedish: kopiator (sv) c, kopieringsapparat (sv) c, kopieringsmaskin (sv) c
• Thai: เครื่องถ่ายเอกสาร (krʉ̂ʉang-tàai-èek-gà-sǎan)
• Turkish: fotokopi makinesi
• Vietnamese: máy sao chụp, máy sao chụp tự động
• Welsh: llungopïwr m, peiriant llungopïo m

French

Etymology

From photo- +‎ copier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔ.to.kɔ.pje/

• Audio:

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Verb

photocopier

1. (transitive) to photocopy

Conjugation

Conjugation of photocopier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	photocopier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	photocopiant /fɔ.to.kɔ.pjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		photocopié /fɔ.to.kɔ.pje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	photocopie /fɔ.to.kɔ.pi/	photocopies /fɔ.to.kɔ.pi/	photocopie /fɔ.to.kɔ.pi/	photocopions /fɔ.to.kɔ.pjɔ̃/	photocopiez /fɔ.to.kɔ.pje/	photocopient /fɔ.to.kɔ.pi/
	imperfect	photocopiais /fɔ.to.kɔ.pjɛ/	photocopiais /fɔ.to.kɔ.pjɛ/	photocopiait /fɔ.to.kɔ.pjɛ/	photocopiions /fɔ.to.kɔ.pi.jɔ̃/	photocopiiez /fɔ.to.kɔ.pi.je/	photocopiaient /fɔ.to.kɔ.pjɛ/
	past historic2	photocopiai /fɔ.to.kɔ.pje/	photocopias /fɔ.to.kɔ.pja/	photocopia /fɔ.to.kɔ.pja/	photocopiâmes /fɔ.to.kɔ.pjam/	photocopiâtes /fɔ.to.kɔ.pjat/	photocopièrent /fɔ.to.kɔ.pjɛʁ/
	future	photocopierai /fɔ.to.kɔ.pi.ʁe/	photocopieras /fɔ.to.kɔ.pi.ʁa/	photocopiera /fɔ.to.kɔ.pi.ʁa/	photocopierons /fɔ.to.kɔ.pi.ʁɔ̃/	photocopierez /fɔ.to.kɔ.pi.ʁe/	photocopieront /fɔ.to.kɔ.pi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	photocopierais /fɔ.to.kɔ.pi.ʁɛ/	photocopierais /fɔ.to.kɔ.pi.ʁɛ/	photocopierait /fɔ.to.kɔ.pi.ʁɛ/	photocopierions /fɔ.to.kɔ.pi.ʁjɔ̃/	photocopieriez /fɔ.to.kɔ.pi.ʁje/	photocopieraient /fɔ.to.kɔ.pi.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	photocopie /fɔ.to.kɔ.pi/	photocopies /fɔ.to.kɔ.pi/	photocopie /fɔ.to.kɔ.pi/	photocopiions /fɔ.to.kɔ.pi.jɔ̃/	photocopiiez /fɔ.to.kɔ.pi.je/	photocopient /fɔ.to.kɔ.pi/
	imperfect2	photocopiasse /fɔ.to.kɔ.pjas/	photocopiasses /fɔ.to.kɔ.pjas/	photocopiât /fɔ.to.kɔ.pja/	photocopiassions /fɔ.to.kɔ.pja.sjɔ̃/	photocopiassiez /fɔ.to.kɔ.pja.sje/	photocopiassent /fɔ.to.kɔ.pjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	photocopie /fɔ.to.kɔ.pi/	—	photocopions /fɔ.to.kɔ.pjɔ̃/	photocopiez /fɔ.to.kɔ.pje/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• copier
• photocopie
• photocopieur
• photocopieuse

Further reading

• “photocopier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.