scriptor
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English
Etymology
From Latin scrīptor, to avoid the etymological link between author and authority.
Noun
scriptor (plural scriptors)
- (literature) A writer, regarded as producing a work but not as providing its explanation (which is instead determined by the reader), according to the theories of Roland Barthes.
- 2021, Vicent Cucarella Ramon, Benjamin Drew: The Refugee. Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada, page 44:
- Although this literary exercise has been used to question the validity of Drew's book, the little biographies he offered acquire a worthy literary dimension if read using Foucault's critique to the Barthesian scriptor.
Latin
Etymology
From scrībō (“I write”) + -tor.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈskriːp.tor/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈskrip.tor/,
Noun
scrīptor m (genitive scrīptōris, feminine scrīptrīx); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | scrīptor | scrīptōrēs |
| genitive | scrīptōris | scrīptōrum |
| dative | scrīptōrī | scrīptōribus |
| accusative | scrīptōrem | scrīptōrēs |
| ablative | scrīptōre | scrīptōribus |
| vocative | scrīptor | scrīptōrēs |
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References
- “scriptor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “scriptor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- scriptor 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)
- scriptor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- later writers: scriptores aetate posteriores or inferiores
- an historian: rerum scriptor
- we read in history: apud rerum scriptores scriptum videmus, scriptum est
- a writer of tragedy, comedy: scriptor tragoediarum, comoediarum, also (poeta) tragicus, comicus
- a writer of fables: scriptor fabularum
- the work when translated; translation (concrete): liber (scriptoris) conversus, translatus
- the writer, author: scriptor (not auctor = guarantor)
- the book contains something... (not continet aliquid): libro scriptor complexus est aliquid
- our (not noster) author tells us at this point: scriptor hoc loco dicit
- the text of the author (not textus): verba, oratio, exemplum scriptoris
- a legislator: legum scriptor, conditor, inventor
- later writers: scriptores aetate posteriores or inferiores