escribano

See also: Escribano

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish escribano. Doublet of scrivener and scrivano.

Noun

escribano (plural escribanos)

  1. A clerk; a scrivener.
    • 1843, George Borrow, The Bible in Spain:
      They robbed a gentleman and ill-treated him, but his brother, who was an escribano, was soon upon their trail, and had them arrested; but he wanted some one to identify them, and it chanced that they had stopped to drink water at my stall […]

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Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish escriván, from Vulgar Latin *scrībānem, from alteration of declension from Latin scrība (“writer, scribe”). Doublet of escriba, a borrowing.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eskɾiˈbano/ [es.kɾiˈβ̞a.no]
  • Rhymes: -ano
  • Syllabification: es‧cri‧ba‧no

Noun

escribano m (plural escribanos, feminine escribana, feminine plural escribanas)

  1. court clerk, notary
  2. scrivener
  3. bunting (bird)

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