scriptum

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Latin

Etymology

Perfect participle of scrībō (“write”).

Pronunciation

Noun

scrīptum n (genitive scrīptī); second declension

  1. text; anything written, writing

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative scrīptum scrīpta
Genitive scrīptī scrīptōrum
Dative scrīptō scrīptīs
Accusative scrīptum scrīpta
Ablative scrīptō scrīptīs
Vocative scrīptum scrīpta

Synonyms

Descendants

  • Catalan: escrit
  • French: écrit
  • Italian: scritto
  • Portuguese: escrito
  • Romanian: script
  • Spanish: escrito
  • Venetian: scrito
  • → English: script
  • → Proto-West Germanic: *skrifti (see there for further descendants)

Participle

scrīptum

  1. inflection of scrīptus:
    1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
    2. accusative masculine singular

Verb

scrīptum

  1. supine accusative of scrībō
terms related to scrīptum

References

  • “scriptum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “scriptum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • scriptum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) from memory; by heart: ex memoria (opp. de scripto)
    • (ambiguous) we read in history: apud rerum scriptores scriptum videmus, scriptum est
    • (ambiguous) to read a speech: de scripto orationem habere, dicere (opp. sine scripto, ex memoria)
    • (ambiguous) to hold by the letter (of the law): verba ac litteras or scriptum (legis) sequi (opp. sententia the spirit)
    • (ambiguous) we read in Plato: apud Platonem scriptum videmus, scriptum est or simply est
    • (ambiguous) in Plato's 'Phaedo' we read: in Platonis Phaedone scriptum est
    • (ambiguous) a man's soul breathes through his writings: alicuius mens in scriptis spirat
    • (ambiguous) full of orthographical errors: mendose scriptum
    • (ambiguous) a letter to Atticus: epistula ad Atticum data, scripta, missa or quae ad A. scripta est
    • (ambiguous) the law says..: in lege scriptum est, or simply est
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