Translation
abundance, plenty, supply; troops, forces
Examples
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There was a great supply of water in the camp.
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The general led his forces onto the plain.
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He came with all his forces.
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The number of the troops was large.
dicendi .
He had the chance to speak.
Copia, copiae, f., first declension, from co- plus ops, "means, resources". In the singular it is plenty of something, with a genitive for what there is plenty of: copia frumenti.
The number changes the sense, and this catches people out constantly. In the plural copiae almost always means armed forces, because an army is a supply of men, and in a military narrative you will meet copias educere far more often than the singular. A third sense is opportunity or permission: copiam facere alicui, "to give someone the chance". Its opposite is inopia, want. English took copious and, at some distance, copy, from a mediaeval sense of abundance of writing.
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