different between scribe vs scriptorium

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

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin scr?pt?rium, from Latin scr?pt?rius (“pertaining to writing”). Doublet of escritoire.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sk??p?t??.???m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /sk??p?t??.i.?m/
• Hyphenation: scrip?to?ri?um

Noun

scriptorium (plural scriptoria or scriptoriums)

1. (countable) A room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts and records, especially such a room in a monastery.
   • 1907, G. Roger Huddleston, "Scriptorium" in The Catholic Encyclopedia, volume 13

     The rules of the scriptorium varied in different monasteries, but artificial light was forbidden for fear of injury to the manuscripts, and silence was always enforced.

   • 2008, James Ronald Royse, Scribal Habits in Early Greek New Testament Papyri, chapter 7, page 499

     Nevertheless, Aland criticized Martin's suggestion that the codex was the product of the scriptorium attached to a monastery,⁵³⁶ on the grounds that there is no evidence for the existence of monasteries in the year 200, or for the existence of scriptoria at all connected with the Church at that early date.

   • 2009, Fred S. Kleiner, Gardner's Art Through the Ages: The Western Perspective, 13th edition, volume 1, page 289

     Among the earliest Hiberno-Saxon illuminated manuscripts is the Book of Durrow, a Gospel book that may have been written and decorated in the monastic scriptorium at Iona, although its provenance is not documented.

Related terms

• scribe
• script

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin scr?pt?rium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?skr?p?to?.ri.?m/
• Hyphenation: scrip?to?ri?um
• Rhymes: -o?ri?m

Noun

scriptorium n (plural scriptoria)

1. scriptorium (place where manuscripts are produced)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin scr?pt?rium. Doublet of écritoire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk?ip.t?.?j?m/

Noun

scriptorium m (plural scriptoria)

1. a scriptorium

Further reading

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

Latin

Etymology

From scr?ptor (“writer, author”) +? -ium

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /skri?p?to?.ri.um/, [s?k?i?p?t?o??i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /skrip?to.ri.um/, [sk?ip?t????ium]

Noun

scr?pt?rium n (genitive scr?pt?ri? or scr?pt?r?); second declension

1. writing desk, writing room

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

Adjective

scr?pt?rium

1. nominative neuter singular of scr?pt?rius
2. accusative masculine singular of scr?pt?rius
3. accusative neuter singular of scr?pt?rius
4. vocative neuter singular of scr?pt?rius

References

• scriptorium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• scriptorium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)