escribano
See also: Escribano
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish escribano. Doublet of scrivener and scrivano.
Noun edit
escribano (plural escribanos)
- A clerk; a scrivener.
- 1843, George Borrow, The Bible in Spain:
- They robbed a gentleman and ill-treated him, but his brother, who was an escribano, was soon upon their trail, and had them arrested; but he wanted some one to identify them, and it chanced that they had stopped to drink water at my stall […]
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Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Spanish escriván, from Vulgar Latin *scrībānem, from alteration of declension from Latin scrība (“writer, scribe”). Doublet of escriba, a borrowing.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
escribano m (plural escribanos, feminine escribana, feminine plural escribanas)
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Further reading edit
- “escribano”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014