replica

See also: replicá, réplica, replicà, and replică

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian replica, derived from Latin replicare (“to fold or bend back; to reply”). Doublet of reply and replicate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛplɪkə/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

replica (plural replicas or (rare) repliche)

1. An exact copy.

   The statue on the museum floor is an authentic replica.

   • 2025 November 12, Tony Streeter, “All around the world”, in RAIL, number 1048, page 42:

     Promontory's "last spike" ceremony was so significant to the USA's history that it is still regularly re-enacted today, using replica locomotives that nose up to each other just as the originals did.

2. A copy made at a smaller scale than the original.

   Coordinate term: scale model

   He collected replicas of old cars.

Related terms

• replicant
• replicate
• replication
• reply

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) Hindi: अनुकृति (hi) f (anukŕti), प्रतिलिपि (hi) f (pratilipi) 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, trasunto (es) m 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 Finnish: pienoismalli (fi) Hindi: प्रतिरूप (hi) m (pratirūp) Russian: модель (ru) f (modelʹ)

See also

• digital twin
• simulacrum
• simulation

Anagrams

• caliper, earclip

Catalan

Verb

replica

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

Dutch

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replica

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Etymology

Borrowed from Italian replica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈreː.pli.kaː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: rep‧li‧ca

Noun

replica f (plural replica's, diminutive replicaatje n)

1. replica (exact copy)

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Deverbal from replicare +‎ -a.

Noun

replica f (plural repliche)

1. reply, answer
2. objection
3. repetition
4. replica, copy
5. (television) rerun

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

Etymology 2

Verb

replica

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

Anagrams

• capirle, caprile

Latin

Verb

replicā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of replicō

References

• "replica", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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]

• (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

1. 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, third-person subjunctive replice) 1st conjugation

1. to replicate

Conjugation

    conjugation of replica (first conjugation, no infix)

infinitive			a replica
gerund			replicând
past participle			replicat
number		singular			plural
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
	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

• replică
• replicație

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Verb

replica

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