scriptura

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See also: scripturã and scriptură

Interlingua

Noun

scriptura (plural scripturas)

  1. writing
  2. scripture

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From scrībō (I write) +‎ -tūra.

Noun

scrīptūra f (genitive scrīptūrae); first declension

  1. a writing, something written
  2. a composition (act of writing)
  3. (Ecclesiastical Latin) a passage of scripture
Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative scrīptūra scrīptūrae
Genitive scrīptūrae scrīptūrārum
Dative scrīptūrae scrīptūrīs
Accusative scrīptūram scrīptūrās
Ablative scrīptūrā scrīptūrīs
Vocative scrīptūra scrīptūrae
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

Participle

scrīptūra

  1. inflection of scrīptūrus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

scrīptūrā

  1. ablative feminine singular of scrīptūrus

References

  • scriptura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • scriptura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • scriptura 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)
  • scriptura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) a clerical error, copyist's mistake: mendum (scripturae) (Fam. 6. 7. 1)
  • scriptura”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • scriptura”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Old Occitan

Noun

scriptura f (oblique plural scripturas, nominative singular scriptura, nominative plural scripturas)

  1. Alternative form of escriptura