scriptor

Latin scrīptor, to avoid the etymological link between author and authority.

scriptor (plural scriptors)

1. (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.

From scrībō (“I write”) +‎ -tor.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈskriːp.tor/, [ˈs̠kriːpt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈskrip.tor/, [ˈskript̪or]

scrīptor m (genitive scrīptōris, feminine scrīptrīx); third declension

1. writer, author
2. scribe

Third-declension noun.

• scrīptrīx

• “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