écriture
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French and Old French escriture, inherited from Latin scrīptūra (“a writing, scripture”), from scrīptum, the supine of scrībō (“to write”). Compare Middle French scripture, a borrowing from Latin.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
écriture f (plural écritures)
- writing
- scripture
- handwriting
- Il a une mauvaise écriture. ― He has bad handwriting.
- (accounting) accounts entry, entry in the books
- passer une écriture comptable ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
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Further reading edit
- “écriture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.