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

From scrībō + -a (agent noun).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈskriː.ba]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈskriː.ba]

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, 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 (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], 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