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

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.

exact copy

replica

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

Borrowed from Italian replica.

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

  1. replica (exact copy)

Deverbal from replicare +‎ -a.

replica f (plural repliche)

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

replica

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

replicā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of replicō

replica

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

Borrowed from French répliquer, Latin replico, replicare.

a replica (third-person singular present replică, past participle replicat, third-person subjunctive replice) 1st conjugation

  1. to replicate

replica

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