copiato

Copiato is the past participle of the Italian verb copiare, meaning to copy. In Italian, copiato can function as a participle in compound tenses with avere (ho copiato) or as an adjective in passive or descriptive phrases (è stato copiato). As an adjective, it describes something that has been duplicated or reproduced, rather than originally produced.

The form agrees with gender and number: masculinine singular copiato, feminine singular copiata, masculine plural copiati, feminine plural copiate. For example, "Ho copiato un passaggio dal libro" (I copied a passage from the book) or "L'immagine è stata copiata" (The image has been copied). In contexts using the auxiliary essere in passive voice, the participle normally agrees with the subject: "Il testo copiato contiene errori" (The copied text contains errors).

In modern usage, copiato is common in both everyday language and technical contexts. In computing and digital writing, it frequently appears in phrases like "è stato copiato negli appunti" to indicate that data or text has been duplicated to the clipboard. In discussions of intellectual property, copiato often relates to copy-paste actions or to plagiarized material, where the term underscores that content was reproduced from another source.

Relation to other forms includes the noun copia (a copy) and the related verb copiare. The word copiato should not be confused with copia or copiatrice, the latter meaning a copying device; copiato specifically denotes the completed action or state of having been copied.