scriptor Latin · revision 31384

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 180–102 BC, Lucilius|origins=ine-pro *skreibʰ-e/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈskriːp.tɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈskrip.tor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''scrīptor''' ''m'' (genitive scrīptōris, feminine scrīptrīx); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''scrībtor''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|scrībō|-tor|t1=to write]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan derives ⟨scrībō⟩ from [[itc-pro|*skreif-e/o-|t=to carve]] and [[ine-pro|*skreibʰ-e/o-|t=to carve]], so writing was first carving.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[osc|scriftas|t=written]] and [[xum|screhto|t=written]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler and the OLD give Lucilius as its first author, of a writer of literature.^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a person who writes, as the writer of a graffito in an inscription, and a scribe or copyist, as Cicero's mention of Crassus' scribe and reader Diphilus.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is the drafter of a document or law, whose intention Cicero says should be weighed against its letter.^(OLD 2012) Above all it is a writer of literature, as Horace's “writer of satyr plays”, and the historian of a subject, as Cicero's many historians of his deeds that Alexander took with him.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “writer, composer, narrator”.^(Stelten 1995) In Medieval Latin it is a scribe or public scrivener, and a writer.^(Niermeyer 1976) British sources use it of a weary scribe in Alcuin and of royal, papal and town scribes.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius of a writer.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a scribe, a drafter and historians.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of a writer of satyr plays.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|scribe|alt=scribe]], copyist, secretary;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Niermeyer 1976) ''(Medieval Latin)'' a notary.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(DMLBS)

+ # The drafter (of a document, law).^(OLD 2012)

+ # A [[m|en|writer]], [[m|en|author]]; a historian (of something).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[contrāscriptor]]

+ * [[scrīptrīx]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[scrība]]

+ * [[scrīptiō]]

+ * [[scrīptitō]]

+ * [[scrīptōrium]]

+ * [[scrīptōrius]]

+ * [[scrībō]]

+ * [[scrīptūra]]

+ * [[librārius]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}