scribe

English

Etymology

From Middle English scribe, from Old French scribe (“scribe”), from Late Latin usage of scriba (“secretary”) (used in the Vulgate Bible translation to render Antički Grčki γραμματεύς (grammateús, “scribe, secretary”), which had been used in its turn to render the Hebrejski סופר‎ (“writer, scholar”)) from scribere (“to write, draw, draw up, draft (a paper), enlist, enroll, levy; orig. to scratch”), probably akin to scrobs (“a ditch, trench, grave”). Dubleti of shrive.

The verb sense used in carpentry comes from the way a workman uses a compass to mark a line before cutting.

Pronunciation

• MFA^(ključ): /skɹaɪb/
• Rime: -aɪb

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

scribe (plural scribes)

1. Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary, or copyist.
   • 2013 septembar 14, Jane Shilling, “The Golden Thread: the Story of Writing, by Ewan Clayton, review [print edition: Illuminating language]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)‎^[1], strana R28:

   1. A person who writes books or documents by hand as a profession.^W
      • 2013 September-October, w:Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in w:American Scientist:

2. (informal) A journalist.
3. (archaic) A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.
4. A very sharp, steel drawing implement used in engraving and etching, a scriber.

Synonyms

• amanuensis
• scrivener
• tabellion

Derived terms

• etching scribe
• scribal
• scribely
• scribacious

Translations

one who writes; a draughtsman

• Aghwan: 𐕁𐔼𐕗𐔿𐔰𐔱𐔰𐔰𐔾 (d'iṗn'abaal)
• Akkadian: 𒁾𒊬 m (ṭupšarrum)
• Arabic: نَاسِخ‎ m (nāsiḵ), كَاتِب‎ (ar) m (kātib)
• Aramaic: סָפַר‎ m (sāfar)
• Belarusian: pі́sar m (písar), pі́sarka f (písarka)
• Bulgarian: písar (bg) m (písar), písarka f (písarka)
• Catalan: escrivà (ca)
• Cherokee: ᏗᏃᏪᎵᏍᎩ (dinowelisgi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 抄寫員／抄写员 (zh) (chāoxiěyuán)

• Classical Nahuatl: tlahcuiloh, āmoxtlahcuiloh
• Czech: písař (cs) m, písařka f
• Egyptian: (zẖꜣw m)
• Esperanto: skribisto
• Finnish: kirjuri (fi)
• French: scribe (fr) m
• Galician: escribán (gl) m, escriba (gl) m, amanuense (gl) m
• Ge'ez: ጸሓፊ (ṣäḥafi)
• German: Schreiber (de) m, Kopist (de) m
• Gothic: 𐌱𐍉𐌺𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃 m (bōkareis)
• Greek: γραφέας (el) m (graféas)

  Ancient: γραμματεύς m (grammateús)

• Hebrew: טַפְסָר‎ (he) m (tafsár)
• Hungarian: írnok (hu)
• Irish: scríobhaí m
• Italian: scrivano (it) m, scriba (it) m, amanuense (it) m
• Kazakh: žazbager (jazbager), bіtіkšі (bıtıkşı)
• Korean: 필경사(筆耕士) (ko) (pilgyeongsa)
• Kyrgyz: katčы (ky) (katçı)
• Latin: scrība m, librāriolus m, librārius m
• Macedonian: písar m (písar), písarka f (písarka)
• Manx: screeudeyr m
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: bičээč (mn) (bičeeč)

• Old English: wrītere m, bōcere m
• Persian: منشی‎ (fa) (monši), کاتب‎ (fa) (kâteb), دبیر‎ (fa) (dabir)
• Polish: pisarz (pl), pisarka (pl) f, skryba (pl) m, kopista (pl) m
• Portuguese: escriba (pt), amanuense (pt) m
• Romanian: scrib (ro) m, copist (ro) m
• Russian: písarь (ru) m (písarʹ), piséc (ru) m (piséc)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: pѝsār m, pisàrica f

  Roman: pìsār (sh) m, pisàrica (sh) f

• Slovak: pisár m, pisárka f
• Slovene: pisar m, pisarka f
• Spanish: escriba (es), amanuense (es) m, escribano (es) m
• Sumerian: 𒁾𒊬 (dubsar)
• Swahili: mwandishi (sw)
• Tajik: munšӣ (munšī), kotib (kotib), mirzo (mirzo)
• Ugaritic: 𐎒𐎔𐎗 (spr)
• Ukrainian: písar m (pýsar), písarka f (pýsarka)
• Uzbek: mirza (uz), kotib (uz)
• Yiddish: סופֿר‎ m (soyfer)

writer and doctor of the law

• Bulgarian: knížnik m (knížnik)
• Catalan: escriba (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 文士 (zh) (wénshì)

• Finnish: lainoppinut (fi)
• French: scribe (fr) m
• German: Schriftgelehrter (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: γραμματεύς m (grammateús)

• Latin: scrība m
• Maori: karaipi
• Plautdietsch: Schreftjelieeda m
• Portuguese: escriba (pt) m
• Russian: dьяk (ru) m (dʹjak) (dated), piséc (ru) m (piséc), sekretárь (ru) m (sekretárʹ), knížnik (ru) m (knížnik)
• Spanish: escriba (es) m
• Swahili: mwandishi (sw) class 1/2
• Ukrainian: sekretár m (sekretár)

steel drawing implement

• Bulgarian: čertilka f (čertilka)
• Dutch: kraspen m or f
• Finnish: piirrin
• German: Reißnadel f
• Luxembourgish: Räissnol
• Russian: čertílka (ru) f (čertílka)
• Spanish: punta de trazar f

journalist

• Finnish: skribentti (fi)
• Manx: screeudeyr m
• Mongolian: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Georgian: ^{(molim proverite)} გადამწერი (gadamc̣eri)
• Mongolian: ^{(please verify)} bičээč (mn) (bičeeč)

Verb

scribe

1. To write.
2. To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book VII, canto VI, stanza 35, strana 356:

   • 1812, Anonymous, The Trial:

3. To record, as a scribe.
4. To write or draw with a scribe.
5. (carpentry) To cut (something) in order to fit it closely to an irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a moulding, etc.
6. To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.

Related terms

• ascribe
• circumscribe
• describe
• inscribe
• prescribe
• proscribe
• shrive
• transcribe

Translations

to write

• Bulgarian: piša (bg) (piša)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 缮写 (zh)

• Finnish: kirjoittaa (fi)
• German: schreiben (de)
• Icelandic: skrifa (is)
• Japanese: 書く (ja) (かく, kaku)
• Macedonian: píšuva (píšuva)
• Spanish: escribir (es)

to record

• Bulgarian: vpisvam (bg) (vpisvam)
• Finnish: kirjata (fi)
• Icelandic: rita (is), skrá (is)
• Macedonian: zapíšuva (zapíšuva)
• Old Norse: skrá
• Spanish: grabar (es)

to write or draw with a scribe

• Finnish: piirrottaa (fi)

See also

• notary

Further reading

• scribe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• scribe in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

French

Etymology

Pozajmljeno od Latinski scrība. Dubleti of écrivain.

Pronunciation

• MFA^(ključ): /skʁib/

Noun

scribe m (plural scribes)

1. scribe

Further reading

• Šablon:R:fr:TLFi

Interlingua

Verb

scribe

1. prezenta of scriber
2. imperativa of scriber

Latin

Verb

scrībe

1. drugo lice jednine prezenta aktiva imperativa of scrībō

Occitan

Verb

scribe

1. (Gascony) to write