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scribe

Pronunciation: /skɹaɪb/

The English word “scribe” has 11 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary, or copyist.
  2. A person who writes books or documents by hand as a profession.
  3. A journalist.
  4. A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.
  5. A very sharp, steel drawing implement used in engraving and etching, a scriber.

verb

  1. To write.
  2. To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.
  3. To record, as a scribe.
  4. To write or draw with a scribe.
  5. To cut (something) in order to fit it closely to an irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a moulding, etc.
  6. To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.

Etymology

From Middle English scribe, from Old French scribe (“scribe”), from Late Latin usage of scrība (“secretary”) (used in the Vulgate Bible translation to render Ancient Greek γραμματεύς (grammateús, “scribe, secretary”), which had been used in its turn to render the Hebrew סופר (“writer, scholar”)) from scrībere (“to write, draw, draw up, draft (a paper), enlist, enroll, levy; orig. to scratch”),…

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