manuscrit

Semi-learned borrowing from Medieval Latin manūscriptum.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [mə.nusˈkɾit]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ma.nusˈkɾit]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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manuscrit m (plural manuscrits)

1. manuscript

• “manuscrit”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “manuscrit”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “manuscrit” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “manuscrit” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

1594, from Medieval Latin manuscriptum (“writing by hand”), from Latin manu (ablative of manus (“hand”)) + scriptus (past participle of scribere (“to write”)), calqued from a word of Germanic origin, compare Middle High German hantschrift, hantgeschrift (c. 1450, “manuscript”), Old English handġewrit (before 1150, “what is written by hand, deed, contract, manuscript”), Old Norse handrit (before 1300, “manuscript”).

• IPA^(key): /ma.nys.kʁi/

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manuscrit (feminine manuscrite, masculine plural manuscrits, feminine plural manuscrites)

1. manuscript (handwritten, or by extension typewritten)

manuscrit m (plural manuscrits)

1. manuscript

• “manuscrit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

manuscrit

1. manuscript (handwritten, or by extension typewritten)

manuscrit m (plural manuscrits)

1. manuscript

Borrowed from Italian manuscritto or French manuscrit.

manuscrit n (plural manuscrite)

1. manuscript