scriba
Italian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin scrība. Doublet of scrivano.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈskri.ba/
- Rhymes: -iba
- Hyphenation: scrì‧ba
Noun
scriba m (plural scribi)
- (archaic) scribe, amanuensis
- (derogatory) hack journalist
- (historical) scribe, copyist
Related terms
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈskriː.ba]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈskriː.ba]
Noun
scrība m (genitive scrībae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | scrība | scrībae |
genitive | scrībae | scrībārum |
dative | scrībae | scrībīs |
accusative | scrībam | scrībās |
ablative | scrībā | scrībīs |
vocative | scrība | scrībae |
Related terms
Descendants
- Catalan: escrivà
- → Catalan: escriba
- Italian: scrivano
- → Italian: scriba
- → Occitan: escribe
- Old French: escrivain
- French: écrivain
- → Old French: scribe
- Old Occitan: escrivan
- Occitan: escrivan
- Old Galician-Portuguese: escrivan
- → Polish: skryba
- → Portuguese: escriba
- Spanish: escribano
- → Spanish: escriba
References
- “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 (16 July 2016 (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