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)

Related terms

scrivano

Anagrams

sbraci, scabri

Latin

Etymology

scrībō +‎ -a (agent noun)

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈskriː.ba/, [ˈs̠kriːbä]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈskri.ba/, [ˈskriːbä]

Noun

scrība m (genitive scrībae); first declension

writer, scribe, secretary, clerk

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: escriba
Italian: scrivano
→ Italian: scriba
→ Occitan: escribe
Old French: escrivain
- French: écrivain
→ Old French: scribe
- → English: scribe
- French: scribe
Old Occitan: escrivan
- Catalan: escrivà
- Occitan: escrivan
Old Galician-Portuguese: escrivan
- Galician: escribán
- Portuguese: escrivão
→ 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 (2016 July 16 (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

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