copia

Japanese: copia
copia

… The Japanese word 〈reproduction〉 is a new word that has come into wide use since the modern era, and is thought to have begun to be used as a translation of the English word copy (and possibly reproduction, etc.). The English word copy can be traced back to the Latin word copia, which means 〈abundant, large amount〉, and this meaning is still handed down today in the English adjective form copious. In this way, by exploring the origins of the word 〈reproduction〉, we can see that the concept of reproduction was originally strongly associated with a sense of quantity, but it was from the mid-19th century to the 20th century that such quantity-based reproduction showed an almost explosive proliferation due to the various technological developments that supported it, and also showed a certain qualitative transformation. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "copia" are listed below.

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Japanese:

… 〈複製〉という日本語は,近代以降に広く通用するようになった新しい言葉であり,英語のコピーcopy(またおそらくはリプロダクションreproductionなど)の翻訳語として用いられ始めたものと考えられる。そして,この英語のcopyという言葉は,語源的には〈豊富,多量〉を意味するラテン語copiaにさかのぼることができ,英語の形容詞形copiousには今日でもその意味が伝承されている。このようにして,〈複製〉という言葉のよってきたるところを探りだすことにより,われわれは複製という概念が,そもそもは強く数量の意識としてあったであろうことを知るわけであるが,そのような数量としての複製が,それを支える種々の技術的発展によってほとんど爆発的な増殖をみせ,ある質的な転換をも示すようになるのは,19世紀中葉から20世紀にかけてのことであった。…

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