scribe

Significat (English)

Noun

1. Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary, or copyist.
2. Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary, or copyist.
3. (informal) A journalist.
4. A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.
5. A very sharp, steel drawing implement used in engraving and etching, a scriber.

Verb

1. To write.
2. To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.
3. To record, as a scribe.
4. To write or draw with a scribe.
5. To cut (something) in order to fit it closely to an irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a moulding, etc.
6. To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.

Synonyms

writer

✍️🧑‍🦱

clerk

amanuensis

copyist

secretary

scrivener

scriber

author

penman

scratch awl

scribbler

score

courier

write

✍️

lineation

mark

notary public

notch

notes

🎶

novelist

poet

recorder

reporter

ruling

scribing

teacher

🧑‍🏫

Scribner

chalk line

clever person

knowledgeable person

marking off

laying-out

marking out

one who writes

layout liner

accountant

marking-on

carve

compose

composer

copier

copying

cut

duplication

engrave

grave

🪦

hack

incise

inscribe

journalist

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/skɹaɪb/

Etimologia (English)

Inherited from anglès mitjà: scribe

In summary

From Middle English scribe, from Old French scribe (“scribe”), from Late Latin usage of scriba (“secretary”) (used in the Vulgate Bible translation to render Ancient Greek γραμματεύς (grammateús, “scribe, secretary”), which had been used in its turn to render the Hebrew סופר (“writer, scholar”)) from scribere (“to write, draw, draw up, draft (a paper), enlist, enroll, levy; orig. to scratch”), probably akin to scrobs (“a ditch, trench, grave”). Doublet of shrive.
The verb sense used in carpentry comes from the way a workman uses a compass to mark a line before cutting.

Frases

Like many of Smith's publications , it was dictated to a scribe .