scribe

===Etymology

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From

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Средњи Енглески

scribe, from

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Стари Француски

scribe (“scribe”), from

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Рани Латински

usage of scriba (“secretary”) (used in Vulgate to render Ancient Greek γραμματεύς (grammateús, “scribe, secretary”), which had been used in its turn to render the Hebrew 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”).

===Pronunciation

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• (UK, US) МФА^(кључ): /skɹaɪb/
• Риме: -aɪb

===Noun

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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 септембар 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, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:

2. (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.
3. A very sharp, steel drawing implement used in engraving and etching, a scriber.
4. (in particular) A journalist.

Synonyms

• amanuensis
• scrivener
• tabellion

Derived terms

• scribal
• scribely

Translations

one who writes; a draughtsman

• Arabic: نَاسِخ‎ m (nāsiḵ), كَاتِب‎ (ar) m (kātib)
• Catalan: escrivà
• Chinese:

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

• Classical Nahuatl: tlahcuiloh, āmoxtlahcuiloh
• Czech: pisař m
• Egyptian: (zẖꜣw m)
• Esperanto: skribisto
• Finnish: kirjuri (fi)
• French: scribe (fr) m
• German: Schreiber (de) m, Kopist (de) m
• Greek: γραφέας (el) m (graféas)

  Ancient: γραμματεύς m (grammateús)

• Hebrew: טפסר‎ (he) m (tafsar)
• Hungarian: írnok (hu)
• Irish: scríobhaí m

• Italian: scrivano (it) m, scriba (it) m, amanuense (it) m
• Latin: scrība m, librāriolus m, librārius m
• Macedonian: пи́сар m (písar)
• Manx: screeudeyr m
• Mongolian: бичээч (mn) (bičeeč)
• Old English: wrītere m, bōcere m
• Persian: منشی‎ (fa) (monši), کاتب‎ (fa) (kâteb)
• Polish: pisarz (pl), skryba (pl) m, kopista m
• Portuguese: escriba (pt)
• Romanian: scrib (ro) m, copist (ro) m
• Russian: пи́сарь (ru) m (písarʹ), писе́ц (ru) m (piséc)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пѝса̄р m, писа̀рица f

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

• Spanish: escriba (es)
• Swahili: mwandishi (sw)
• Yiddish: סופֿר‎ m (soyfer)

writer and doctor of the law

• Catalan: escriba m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 文士 (zh)

• 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: дьяк (ru) m (dʹjak) (dated), писе́ц (ru) m (piséc), секрета́рь (ru) m (sekretárʹ), кни́жник (ru) m (knížnik)
• Spanish: escriba (es) m
• Swahili: mwandishi (sw) 1 or 2

steel drawing implement

• Dutch: kraspen m or f
• Finnish: piirrin
• German: Reißnadel f

• Luxembourgish: Räissnol
• Russian: чертилки (čertilki)
• Spanish: punta de trazar f

journalist

• Finnish: skribentti (fi)
• Manx: screeudeyr m

• Mongolian: молим додајте овај превод ако можете

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: ^{(молим проверите)} გადამწერი (gadamc̣eri)

• Mongolian: ^{(молим проверите)} бичээч (mn) (bičeeč)

Verb

scribe (third-person singular simple present scribes, present participle scribing, simple past and past participle scribed)

1. To write.
2. To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.

   (Можете ли пронађите и додајте цитат од en на овај унос?)

3. To record.
4. To write or draw with a scribe.
5. (carpentry) To cut (anything) in such a way as to fit closely to a somewhat irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a moulding, etc.; so called because the workman marks, or scribes, with the compasses the line that he afterwards cuts.
6. To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.

Related terms

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

Translations

to write

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 缮写 (zh)

• Finnish: kirjoittaa (fi)
• German: schreiben (de)
• Icelandic: skrifa (is)

• Japanese: 書く (ja) (かく, kaku)
• Macedonian: пишува (pišuva)
• Spanish: escribir (es)

to record

• Finnish: kirjata (fi)
• Icelandic: rita (is), skrá (is)
• Macedonian: запишува (zapišuva)

• 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

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Interlingua

Verb

scribe

1. present of scriber
2. imperative of scriber

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Latin

Verb

scrībe

1. second-person singular present active imperative of scrībō