different between escribe vs scribe

English

Etymology

From Latin e (“out, out of”) + scribere (“to write”).

Verb

escribe (third-person singular simple present escribes, present participle escribing, simple past and past participle escribed)

1. (transitive, geometry) To draw outside of; used to designate a circle that touches one of the sides of a given triangle, and also the other two sides produced.

Translations

Anagrams

• becries

Asturian

Verb

escribe

1. third-person singular present indicative of escribir

Spanish

Verb

escribe

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of escribir.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of escribir.

English

Etymology

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 ?????????? (grammateús, “scribe, secretary”), which had been used in its turn to render the Hebrew ????? (“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”).

The verb sense used in carpentry comes from the way a workman uses a compass to mark a line before cutting.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk?a?b/
• Rhymes: -a?b

Noun

scribe (plural scribes)

1. Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary, or copyist.
   1. A person who writes books or documents by hand as a profession.^W
2. (informal) A journalist.
3. (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.
4. A very sharp, steel drawing implement used in engraving and etching, a scriber.

Synonyms

• amanuensis
• scrivener
• tabellion

Derived terms

• scribal
• scribely

Translations

Verb

scribe (third-person singular simple present scribes, present participle scribing, simple past and past participle scribed)

1. To write.
2. To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.
   • 1812, Anonymous, The Trial

     he scribed his name on the mould, and wrote it on the two pieces of pasteboard

3. To record, as a scribe.
4. To write or draw with a scribe.
5. (carpentry) 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.

Related terms

• ascribe
• circumscribe
• describe
• inscribe
• prescribe
• proscribe
• shrive
• transcribe

Translations

See also

• notary

Further reading

• scribe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• scribe in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin scr?ba. Doublet of écrivain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk?ib/

Noun

scribe m (plural scribes)

1. scribe

Further reading

• “scribe” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Verb

scribe

1. present of scriber
2. imperative of scriber

Latin

Verb

scr?be

1. second-person singular present active imperative of scr?b?

Occitan

Verb

scribe

1. (Gascony) to write