different between scriptorium vs script

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)

See Wiktionary:Scripts for information about scripts on Wiktionary.

English

Etymology

From Middle English scrit, borrowed from Old French escrit, from Latin scriptum (something written), from scr?b? (“write”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk??pt/
• Rhymes: -?pt

Noun

script (countable and uncountable, plural scripts)

1. (countable, obsolete) A writing; a written document.

   Synonyms: cursive, hand, handwriting, manuscript

2. Written characters; style of writing.
3. (typography) Type made in imitation of handwriting.

   Synonym: cursive

4. (countable, law) An original instrument or document.
5. (countable) The written document containing the dialogue and action for a drama; the text of a stage play, movie, or other performance. Especially, the final form used for the performance itself.

   Hyponyms: screenplay, teleplay

6. (computing) A file containing a list of user commands, allowing them to be invoked once to execute in sequence.

   Synonyms: batch file, macro, shell script

   Hyponyms: coffeescript, here-script, postscript

7. (linguistics) A system of writing adapted to a particular language or set of languages.

   Synonyms: language script, writing system

8. Short for prescription.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• scripture

Translations

Verb

script (third-person singular simple present scripts, present participle scripting, simple past and past participle scripted)

1. (transitive) To make or write a script.
2. (transitive) To devise, concoct, or contrive.

Translations

References

• script in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• crispt

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skr?pt/
• Hyphenation: script
• Rhymes: -?pt

Noun

script n (plural scripts, diminutive scriptje n)

1. script (written text of a dramatic performance)

See also

• scenario

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English script. Doublet of écrit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk?ipt/

Noun

script m (plural scripts)

1. script (written dialogue for a play, film, etc.)

Further reading

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

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• szkript

Etymology

Borrowed from English script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?skript]
• Hyphenation: script

Noun

script (plural scriptek)

1. (computing) script

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English script. Doublet of escrito.

Noun

script m (plural scripts)

1. (acting) script (text of the dialogue and action for a drama)

   Synonym: roteiro

2. (computing) script (source code that is interpreted rather than compiled)

Related terms

• escrito

Romanian

Etymology

Initially inherited from Latin scriptum as the past participle of scrie, which was later replaced by scris. The current meaning is borrowed from English script.

Noun

script n (plural scripturi)

1. script (of a film, play, show, etc.)

Synonyms

• scenariu

Related terms

• scriptic