scrivano

Borrowed from Italian scrivano. Doublet of scrivan, scrivener, and escribano.

scrivano (plural scrivanos or scrivanoes)

1. (archaic) A scribe or clerk.
   • 1813, Robert Kerr, A General History of Voyages and Travels to the End of the 18th Century:

     We dined that day with the scrivano, and hired a house of Hassan Aga, one of our pledges, at seventy dollars the monsoon, or yearly rent, it being all the same.

• corvinas

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *scrībānem (with later change of declension), accusative of Latin *scrība, from Latin scrība (“writer, scribe”), with altered declension. Compare Occitan escrivan, French écrivain, Spanish escribano. Doublet of scriba.

• IPA^(key): /skriˈva.no/
• Rhymes: -ano
• Hyphenation: scri‧và‧no

scrivano m (plural scrivani)

1. scribe

scrivano m (plural scrivani, feminine scrivana)

1. clerk

• scrivanello
• scrivanuccio

• scriba
• scrivere
• scrittore
• amanuense

• scrivano in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• scrivano in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• IPA^(key): /ˈskri.va.no/
• Rhymes: -ivano
• Hyphenation: scrì‧va‧no

scrivano

1. inflection of scrivere:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

• scarnivo, scornavi