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Italian

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin scrība. Doublet of scrivano.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈskri.ba/
  • Rhymes: -iba
  • Hyphenation: scrì‧ba

Noun

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scriba m (plural scribi)

  1. (archaic) scribe, amanuensis
  2. (derogatory) hack journalist
  3. (historical) scribe, copyist
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Latin

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Etymology

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scrībō +‎ -a (agent noun)

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Noun

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scrība m (genitive scrībae); first declension

  1. writer, scribe, secretary, clerk

Declension

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First-declension noun.

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Descendants

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References

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  • scriba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • scriba”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • scriba in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • scriba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • scriba in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  • scriba”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin