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\ \ [14] Scribe is at the centre of a large network of English words that go back to Latin scrīberewrite’. Others include ascribe [15], describe, scribble [15], and shrive, while its past participle scriptus has contributed script [14], scripture [13], and transcript [13]. Scribe itself comes from the Latin derivative scrībaofficial writer’. Scrībere went back to an Indo-European base which meant ‘cut, incise’, reflecting the origins of writing in carving marks on stone, wood, or clay; this was *skreibh-, an extension of *sker-, from which English gets shear, short, etc.
\ \ Cf.ASCRIBE, CONSCRIPTION, DESCRIBE, SCRIBBLE, SCRIPT, SHARE, SHEAR, SHORT, SHRIVE, TRANSCRIBE

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  • scribe — [ skrib ] n. m. • 1365 sens 3; lat. scriba « greffier », de scribere « écrire » 1 ♦ Anciennt Homme dont le métier était d écrire à la main. ⇒ copiste, écrivain (public), greffier. « Toute loi écrite est déjà périmée. Car la main du scribe est… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • SCRIBE (E.) — SCRIBE EUGÈNE (1791 1861) Fils d’un marchand drapier de la rue Saint Denis, Eugène Scribe ne vient au théâtre que par goût du vaudeville, qui le détourne d’une carrière d’avocat où le poussent ses parents. Il débute au théâtre des Variétés avec… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • scribe — [skrīb] n. [ME < L scriba, public writer, scribe, in LL(Ec), doctor of the Jewish law < scribere, to write < IE * skeribh < base * (s)ker , to cut, incise > SHEAR] 1. a professional penman who copied manuscripts before the… …   English World dictionary

  • Scribe — steht für: Eugène Scribe, ein französischer Dichter Scribe (Multicast), eine Application Level Multicast Infrastruktur …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Scribe — Scribe, v. i. To make a mark. [1913 Webster] With the separated points of a pair of spring dividers scribe around the edge of the templet. A. M. Mayer. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • scribe — Scribe. s. m. Parmy les Juifs on appelloit Scribes, Ceux qui escrivoient la loy de Moyse & l interpretoient au peuple. Les Scribes & les Pharisiens. On appelle Scribe, par raillerie, Un homme qui gagne sa vie à escrire, à copier. C est un bon, un …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • Scribe — (skr[imac]b), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scribed} (skr[imac]bd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Scribing}.] 1. To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe. Spenser. [1913 Webster] 2. (Carp.) To cut (anything) in such a way as to fit closely to a somewhat irregular… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Scribe — (skr[imac]b), n. [L. scriba, fr. scribere to write; cf. Gr. ska rifos a splinter, pencil, style (for writing), E. scarify. Cf. {Ascribe}, {Describe}, {Script}, {Scrivener}, {Scrutoire}.] 1. One who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another;… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • scribe — ► NOUN 1) historical a person who copied out documents. 2) informal, often humorous a writer, especially a journalist. 3) Jewish History a Jewish record keeper or, later, a professional theologian and jurist. 4) (also scriber or scribe awl) a… …   English terms dictionary

  • Scribe — Scribe, Augustin Eugène, geb. 24. Dec. 1791 in Paris, studirte Jurisprudenz, wandte sich aber bald der dramatischen Poesie zu, namentlich dem Vaudeville, aus dem er ein neues Genre schuf (s.u. Vaudeville); seit 1820 wurden diese Stücke zunächst… …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Scribe — Scribe, Eugène, franz. Theaterdichter, geb. 24. Dez. 1791 in Paris, gest. daselbst 20. Febr. 1861, widmete sich anfangs dem Studium der Rechte, betrat aber bald die Laufbahn des dramatischen Dichters. Sein erstes Stück, das er in Gemeinschaft mit …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

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