scribe

Meaning

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. (archaic) 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

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clerk

amanuensis

copyist

secretary

scrivener

scriber

author

penman

scratch awl

scribbler

score

courier

write

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lineation

mark

notary public

notch

notes

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novelist

poet

recorder

reporter

ruling

scribing

teacher

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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

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hack

incise

inscribe

journalist

Translations

scribe

escriba

Schreiber

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escriba

amanuense

escribano

copista

amanuense

copista

scriptor

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γραφέας

scriba

scalfire

scritturale

copista

Pronounced as (IPA)

/skɹaɪb/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: scribe

In summary

From Middle English scribe, from Old French scribe (“scribe”), from Late Latin usage of scrība (“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 scrībere (“to write, draw, draw up, draft (a paper), enlist, enroll, levy; orig. to scratch”), probably akin to scrobs (“a ditch, trench, grave”).

Sentences

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