different between scrit vs scrip

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin scriptus.

Verb

scrit

1. past participle of scrivi

Related terms

• scritôr
• scriture

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin scriptus.

Verb

scrit (plural scric, feminine scrita, feminine plural scrites)

1. past participle of scriver

Middle English

Etymology

See script.

Noun

scrit

1. writing; document; scroll

References

• scrit at OneLook Dictionary Search
• scrit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• crits

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk??p/

Etymology 1

From Middle English scrippe, an aphetism of Old French escrepe (“purse, alms-bag”), a variant of escharpe, from Old Norse skreppa. Cognate with Danish skreppe (“scrip”). Doublet of scarf.

Noun

scrip (countable and uncountable, plural scrips)

1. A small medieval bag used to carry food, money, utensils etc.
   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 9

     Depositing his scrip in the outhouse the cowherd glanced around.

   • 1964 Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun

     A night promising fair, scented, the moon in her third quarter, nightingales in the wood, WS, in worn cloak against the morning’s chill, empty scrip and purse, taking the road. —

2. (archaic) Small change.
   • 1899, Edward Everett Hale, The Brick Moon and Other Stories, (Short Story Index Reprint Series), Project Gutenberg, [1999], Etext #1633

     In reading it in 1899, I am afraid that the readers of a hard, money generation may not know that "scrip" was in the sixties the name for small change.

Etymology 2

Probably from a conflation of script and scrap.

Noun

scrip (countable and uncountable, plural scrips)

1. A scrap of paper.
2. A document signifying a power to obtain a specified acreage of public land.
4. A voucher or token coin used in place of legal tender for payment of wages.

   Synonym: chit

5. A substitute for legal tender that is produced by a local government or a private organization.

Etymology 3

Abbreviation of subscription receipt.

Noun

scrip (plural scrips)

1. A share certificate.

Etymology 4

Abbreviation of prescription.

Noun

scrip (plural scrips)

1. (informal, Britain, US) A medical prescription.

References

• scrip at OneLook Dictionary Search
• scrip in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Crips, Crisp, crips, crisp

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English scrip, clipping of subscription receipt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skr?p/
• Hyphenation: scrip
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

scrip m (plural scrips)

1. scrip (share certificate)