Word.ws English Dictionary

copyvio

Syllables: co·py·vi·o/ˈkɒpiˌvaɪ.əʊ/US/ˈkɑpiˌvaɪ.oʊ/

copyvio noun: a violation of copyright laws: copyright infringement.

Noun

copyvio (countable and uncountable, plural copyvios)

  1. (wiki jargon) A violation of copyright laws: copyright infringement.
    • My suggestion is to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_violations to see our mechanism that deals with copyvios.2005 January 3, ta bu shi da yu, “Re: Wikipedia - Check pages for copied articles”, in misc.transport.road (Usenet)
    • These are the edits made to this article before the deletion of versions that included copyvio.2005 June 24, “TheoClarke” (username), in “Gun Quarter, Birmingham/Deleted history”, Wikipedia, quoted in Deleting: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases, ICON Group International (2008), page 44

Forms of copyvio

pluralcopyvios

Origin of copyvio

Blend of copyright violation.

Questions about copyvio

What does copyvio mean?
Copyvio means a violation of copyright laws: copyright infringement.
What part of speech is copyvio?
Copyvio is a noun.
How do you pronounce copyvio?
Copyvio is pronounced /ˈkɒpiˌvaɪ.əʊ/ (UK).
What is the plural of copyvio?
The plural of copyvio is copyvios.

Words near copyvio in the dictionary

  1. copytakers
  2. copytaking
  3. copytext
  4. copytexts
  5. Copythorne
  6. copyvio
  7. copyvios
  8. copywise
  9. copywork
  10. copyworks
  11. copywrite

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: copyvio (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-copyvio.wav.

Cite this entry: “copyvio.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/copyvio. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.