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According to Wikipedia's Coptic Identity and Egyptian pages it arose in Greco-Roman period to differentiate the native lower class from the foreign rulers. This was carried over during the Arabization of Egypt with Copts only becoming tied to those remaining Christian in the Mamluk period. I’d say considering Copts an ethnoreligious group would be the identity rested in modern demographics rather than just the ethnic connotations.