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Catalan
Etymology
Semi-learned borrowing from Medieval Latin manūscriptum.
Pronunciation
Noun
manuscrit m (plural manuscrits)
- manuscript
Further reading
- “manuscrit”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies , 2007 April
- “manuscrit”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
- “manuscrit” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “manuscrit” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
1594, from Medieval Latin manuscriptum (“writing by hand”), from Latin manu (ablative of manus (“hand”)) + scriptus (past participle of scribere (“to write”)), calqued from a word of Germanic origin, compare Middle High German hantschrift, hantgeschrift (c. 1450, “manuscript”), Old English handġewrit (before 1150, “what is written by hand, deed, contract, manuscript”), Old Norse handrit (before 1300, “manuscript”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
manuscrit (feminine manuscrite, masculine plural manuscrits, feminine plural manuscrites)
- manuscript (handwritten, or by extension typewritten)
Noun
manuscrit m (plural manuscrits)
- manuscript
Further reading
Friulian
Adjective
manuscrit
- manuscript (handwritten, or by extension typewritten)
Noun
manuscrit m (plural manuscrits)
- manuscript
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian manuscritto or French manuscrit.
Noun
manuscrit n (plural manuscrite)
- manuscript
Declension