writere

writere

Middle English

Noun

writere

alternative form of writer

Old English

Etymology

From wrītan +‎ -ere.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈwriː.te.re/

Noun

wrītere m

writer
used in numerous more specific senses, including:
1. scribe
2. secretary
3. draughtsman
4. painter

Declension

Strong ja-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	wrītere	wrīteras
accusative	wrītere	wrīteras
genitive	wrīteres	wrītera
dative	wrītere	wrīterum

Synonyms

(scribe): bōcere
(painter): mētere

Derived terms

ǣwrītere (“writer of laws”)
cranicwrītere (“chronicler”)
ealdwrītere (“antiquarian”)
inwrītere (“resident scribe, private secretary”)
notwrītere (“writer of notes”)
rihtwrītere (“good writer”)
stæfwrītere (“grammarian”)
stǣrwrītere (“historian”)
tīdwrītere (“chronicler”)
unwrītere (“bad writer”)

Descendants

Middle English: writer, writere, wryter, writere, wrytter, wrytere, wrijtere
- English: writer
- Scots: writer

References

Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “wrītere”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.