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scrivener

/skˈɹɪvnə/SKRIV-nur
/skˈɹɪvnɚ/SKRIV-nur

Meaningwriter

Common meaning: scribe or professional copyist

Journey through time

  1. Latinscriba‘writer’source
  2. Late Latinmeaning shiftswriter → notaryseribanum‘notary’source
  3. Old Frenchescrivain‘a scrivener’source
  4. Middle Englishskriveneresource
  5. Englishmeaning shiftsnotary → scribe or professional copyistscrivener‘scribe or professional copyist’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Built on Latin scriba ‘writer’.

Roots

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