replica

See also: replicá, réplica, replicà, and replică

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian replica, derived from Latin replicare (“to copy”). Doublet of reply and replicate.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛplɪkə/
Audio (Southern England) (file)

Noun

replica (plural replicas or (rare) repliche)

An exact copy.
The statue on the museum floor is an authentic replica.
A copy made at a smaller scale than the original.
Coordinate term: scale model

He collected replicas of old cars.

Related terms

Descendants

→ Turkish: replika

Translations

exact copy

Arabic: نُشْخَة f (nušḵa)
Bulgarian: дубликат (bg) m (dublikat), репродукция (bg) f (reprodukcija)
Catalan: rèplica f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 複製品／复制品 (zh) (fùzhìpǐn), 仿製品／仿制品 (zh) (fǎngzhìpǐn)
Czech: replika (cs) f
Esperanto: repliko
Finnish: jäljennös (fi), kopio (fi)
French: réplique (fr) f, copie exacte f
German: Nachbildung (de) f, exakte Kopie f
Greek: αντίγραφο (el) n (antígrafo)
Icelandic: eftirmynd (is) f, eftirlíking (is) f
Interlingua: replica
Italian: replica (it) f, copia esatta f
Japanese: 複製 (ja) (ふくせい, fukusei), 写し (ja) (うつし, utsushi), 模造品 (ja) (もぞうひん, mozōhin), レプリカ (ja) (repurika)
Lithuanian: kopija (lt), replika
Maori: kape
Plautdietsch: Aufbilt n
Polish: kopia (pl), replika (pl)
Portuguese: réplica (pt) f, cópia exata f
Romanian: copie (ro) f, copii (ro) f pl, replică (ro) f, reproducere (ro) f
Russian: то́чная ко́пия f (tóčnaja kópija), репроду́кция (ru) f (reprodúkcija), ре́плика (ru) f (réplika) (rare in this sense), муля́ж (ru) m (muljáž)
Spanish: réplica (es) f
Swedish: replika (sv) c
Turkish: kopya (tr), replika (tr)
Volapük: samäd (vo)

smaller-scale model

Bulgarian: реплика (bg) f (replika)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 縮小模型／缩小模型 (zh), 袖珍模型 (zh)
Finnish: pienoismalli (fi)
Russian: модель (ru) f (modelʹ)

Anagrams

caliper, earclip

Catalan

Verb

replica

inflection of replicar:
1. third-person singular present indicative
2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈrɛ.pli.ka/
Rhymes: -ɛplika
Hyphenation: rè‧pli‧ca

Etymology 1

Deverbal from replicare +‎ -a.

Noun

replica f (plural repliche)

Descendants

→ Crimean Tatar: replika
→ Dutch: replica
→ English: replica
→ Finnish: replika
→ French: réplique (see there for further descendants)
→ Polish: replika
→ Romanian: replică
→ Serbo-Croatian: rèplika
→ Turkish: replika

Verb

replica

inflection of replicare:
1. third-person singular present indicative
2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

capirle, caprile

Latin

Verb

replicā

second-person singular present active imperative of replicō

References

replica in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈpli.kɐ/ [heˈpli.kɐ]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈpli.kɐ/ [χeˈpli.kɐ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈpli.ka/ [heˈpli.ka]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɨˈpli.kɐ/

Hyphenation: re‧pli‧ca

Verb

replica

inflection of replicar:
1. third-person singular present indicative
2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French répliquer, Latin replico, replicare.

Verb

a replica (third-person singular present replică, past participle replicat) 1st conj.

to replicate

Conjugation

conjugation of replica (first conjugation, no infix)

number		singular			plural
infinitive			a replica
gerund			replicând
past participle			replicat
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	replic	replici	replică	replicăm	replicați	replică
	imperfect	replicam	replicai	replica	replicam	replicați	replicau
	simple perfect	replicai	replicași	replică	replicarăm	replicarăți	replicară
	pluperfect	replicasem	replicaseși	replicase	replicaserăm	replicaserăți	replicaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
subjunctive	present	să replic	să replici	să replice	să replicăm	să replicați	să replice
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		replică			replicați
	negative		nu replica			nu replicați

Derived terms

replicare

Related terms

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /reˈplika/ [reˈpli.ka]
Rhymes: -ika
Syllabification: re‧pli‧ca

Verb

replica

inflection of replicar:
1. third-person singular present indicative
2. second-person singular imperative

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