Other forms: photocopied, photocopies, photocopying
To photocopy is to make a paper copy of a page. Photocopy the form, photocopy it twice, a photocopied sheet.
The machine works by static electricity: light leaves a charged pattern on a drum, powder sticks to it, and heat fuses the powder to the paper. Copying a whole book is an infringement of copyright in most countries.
1verbphotocopyTo make a paper copy of a page.
“Could you photocopy this page for me before the meeting?”
photocopy is a copying.
Proto-Indo-European
*h₃ep-
Middle English
copy
English
copy
English, today
photocopy
Built from
From photo- + copy. copy comes from Middle English copy. From Middle English copy, copie, from Old French copie (“abundance, plenty; transcript, copy”), from Medieval Latin copia (“reproduction, transcript”), from Latin cōpia (“plenty, abundance”), from coopia, from co- (“together”) + ops (“wealth, riches”). More at opulent.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA