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Italian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin scrība. Doublet of scrivano.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈskri.ba/
- Rhymes: -iba
- Hyphenation: scrì‧ba
Noun
scriba m (plural scribi)
- (archaic) scribe, amanuensis
- (derogatory) hack journalist
- (historical) scribe, copyist
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Latin
Etymology
scrībō + -a (agent noun)
Pronunciation
Noun
scrība m (genitive scrībae); first declension
- writer, scribe, secretary, clerk
Declension
First-declension noun.
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References
- “scriba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “scriba”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- scriba in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- scriba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- scriba in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “scriba”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin