scriba

Learned borrowing from Latin scrība. Doublet of scrivano.

• IPA^(key): /ˈskri.ba/
• Rhymes: -iba
• Hyphenation: scrì‧ba

scriba m (plural scribi)

1. (archaic) scribe, amanuensis
2. (derogatory) hack journalist
3. (historical) scribe, copyist

• scrivano

• sbraci, scabri

scrībō +‎ -a (agent noun)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈskriː.ba/, [ˈs̠kriːbä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈskri.ba/, [ˈskriːbä]

scrība m (genitive scrībae); first declension

1. writer, scribe, secretary, clerk

First-declension noun.

• “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