Illuminated Byzantine gospel lectionary, circa 1100
Pronunciation
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IPA (key ) : /ˈmæn.jʊˌskɹɪpt/
Hyphenation: man‧u‧script
Etymology 1
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1597, from Medieval Latin manūscrīptus , a calque of Germanic origin, equivalent to Latin manū ( ablative of manus ( “ hand ” ) ) + Latin scrīptus ( past participle of scribere ( “ to write ” ) ) . Not found in Classical Latin.
Adjective
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manuscript (not comparable )
Handwritten , or by extension manually typewritten , as opposed to being mechanically reproduced.
Translations
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handwritten, or by extension typewritten
Arabic: مَخْطُوطَة f ( maḵṭūṭa )
Azerbaijani: əlyazma (az)
Bashkir: ҡулъяҙма ( qulʺyaźma ) , ҡулдан ( quldan ) яҙылған ( yaźılğan )
Bulgarian: ръкопи́сен ( rǎkopísen )
Catalan: manuscrit (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 手寫 的 / 手写 的 ( shǒuxiě de )
Dutch: handgeschreven (nl) , geschreven (nl)
Finnish: käsin kirjoitettu
French: manuscrit (fr)
Galician: manuscrito (gl) m
Georgian: ხელნაწერი (ka) ( xelnac̣eri ) , მანუსკრიპტი (ka) ( manusḳriṗṭi )
German: Handschrift (de) , Manuskript (de)
Greek: χειρόγραφο (el) n ( cheirógrafo )
Italian: manoscritto (it)
Japanese: 手書きの (ja) ( てがきの, tegaki no )
Khmer: អក្សរដៃ ( aksɑɑ day )
Malay: manuskrip
Persian: دستنوشته (fa) ( dast-nevešte ) , دستنویس ( dast-nevis ) , نسخه خطی ( nosxe xatti ) , مخطوطه ( maxtute )
Polish: odręczny (pl) , rękopis (pl)
Portuguese: manuscrito (pt)
Russian: рукопи́сный (ru) ( rukopísnyj )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: рукописни , руком писани
Roman: rukopisni (sh) , rukom pisani
Spanish: manuscrito (es)
Walloon: scrît al mwin m
Etymology 2
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From Medieval Latin manūscrīptum ( “ writing by hand ” ) , a calque of Germanic origin: compare Middle High German hantschrift , hantgeschrift ( “ manuscript ” ) (c. 1450), Old English handġewrit ( “ what is written by hand, deed, contract, manuscript ” ) (before 1150), Old Norse handrit ( “ manuscript ” ) (before 1300). Not found in Classical Latin.
manuscript (plural manuscripts )
A book , composition or any other document , written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced.
1897 December (indicated as 1898 ), Winston Churchill , chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode , New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company ; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd. , →OCLC :In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts , […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.
2013 September-October, Henry Petroski , “The Evolution of Eyeglasses ”, in American Scientist :The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, [ …] . Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.
A single, original copy of a book, article , composition etc, written by hand or even printed, submitted as original for (copy-editing and) reproductive publication .
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Translations
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book, composition or any other document, written by hand
Afrikaans: manuskrip (af)
Albanian: dorëshkrim (sq) m
Arabic: مَخْطُوطَة f ( maḵṭūṭa ) , مَخْطُوط m ( maḵṭūṭ )
Armenian: մատյան (hy) ( matyan ) , ձեռագիր (hy) ( jeṙagir )
Azerbaijani: əlyazı , əlyazma (az)
Bashkir: ҡулъяҙма ( qulʺyaźma )
Belarusian: ру́капіс m ( rúkapis ) , манускры́пт m ( manuskrýpt )
Bengali: পাণ্ডুলিপি (bn) ( panḍulipi )
Bulgarian: ръкопи́с (bg) m ( rǎkopís )
Burmese: စာမူ (my) ( camu )
Catalan: manuscrit (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 手稿 (zh) ( shǒugǎo ) , 手抄本 (zh) ( shǒuchāoběn ) , 原稿 (zh) ( yuángǎo )
Czech: rukopis (cs) m
Danish: håndskrift n , manuskript n
Dutch: manuscript (nl) n , handschrift (nl) n
Esperanto: manuskripto , manskribaĵo
Estonian: käsikiri
Finnish: käsikirjoitus (fi)
French: manuscrit (fr) m
Georgian: ხელნაწერი (ka) ( xelnac̣eri )
German: Handschrift (de) f
Greek: χειρόγραφο (el) n ( cheirógrafo )
Hebrew: כְּתַב יָד (he) m ( ktav yad )
Hindi: पाण्डुलिपि (hi) f ( pāṇḍulipi )
Hungarian: kézirat (hu)
Indonesian: naskah (id)
Irish: lámhscríbhinn f
Italian: manoscritto (it) m
Japanese: 手書き原稿 ( てがきげんこう, tegaki-genkō ) , 写本 (ja) ( しゃほん, shahon ) , 手写本 ( しゅしゃぼん, shushabon ) , マニュスクリプト ( manyusukuriputo )
Kazakh: көшірме ( köşırme ) , қолжазба ( qoljazba )
Khmer: សាត្រាស្លឹករឹត ( sattra slǝk riit ) , សាស្ត្រា ( saahstraa ) , គម្ពីរ (km) ( kumpii ) , ក្រាំង (km) ( kraŋ )
Korean: 사본(寫本) (ko) ( sabon )
Kyrgyz: кол жазма ( kol jazma )
Lao: ໜັງສືໃບລານ ( nang sư̄ bai lān ) , ຫນັງສືໃບລານ ( nang sư̄ bai lān ) , ຕົ້ນສະບັບ ( ton sa bap )
Latvian: rokraksts m , manuskripts m
Lithuanian: rankraštis (lt) m , manuskriptas (lt) m
Macedonian: ракопис m ( rakopis )
Malay: naskhah
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: бичмэл (mn) ( bičmel )
Mongolian: ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠮᠡᠯ ( bičimel )
Norwegian: manuskript n
Occitan: manuscrich (oc) m , manuscrit (oc)
Old English: please add this translation if you can
Persian: دستنوشته (fa) ( dast-nevešte ) , نسخه خطی ( nosxe-ye xatti )
Polish: rękopis (pl) m , manuskrypt (pl) m
Portuguese: manuscrito (pt) m
Romanian: manuscris (ro)
Russian: ру́копись (ru) f ( rúkopisʹ ) , манускри́пт (ru) m ( manuskrípt )
Scottish Gaelic: làmh-sgrìobhainn f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ру̏копӣс m
Roman: rȕkopīs (sh) m
Slovak: rukopis m
Slovene: rokopis (sl) m
Spanish: manuscrito (es) m
Swedish: manuskript (sv) , handskrift (sv)
Tajik: дастнавис ( dastnavis )
Tatar: кулъязма (tt) ( qulʺyazma )
Thai: ต้นฉบับ (th) ( dtôn-chà-bàp )
Turkish: yazma (tr)
Turkmen: golýazma
Ukrainian: руко́пис m ( rukópys ) , манускри́пт m ( manuskrýpt )
Uyghur: قوليازما ( qolyazma )
Uzbek: qoʻlyozma (uz)
Vietnamese: thủ bản (vi)
Walloon: papîscrît (wa) m
book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication
Armenian: բնագիր (hy) ( bnagir ) , ձեռագիր (hy) ( jeṙagir )
Bashkir: ҡулъяҙма ( qulʺyaźma )
Bulgarian: ръкопис (bg) m ( rǎkopis )
Catalan: manuscrit (ca) m , original (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 原稿 (zh) ( yuángǎo ) , 草稿 (zh) ( cǎogǎo )
Czech: rukopis (cs) m
Danish: manuskript n
Dutch: manuscript (nl) n , kopij (nl) f
Esperanto: manuskripto
Finnish: käsikirjoitus (fi)
French: manuscrit (fr) m
Greek: χειρόγραφο (el) n ( cheirógrafo )
Hungarian: kézirat (hu)
Ingrian: käsikirjutos
Italian: manoscritto (it) m
Japanese: 原稿 (ja) ( げんこう, genkō ) , 草稿 (ja) ( そうこう, sōkō ) , 稿本 ( こうほん, kōhon ) , 稿 (ja) ( こう, kō ) , 記録 (ja) ( きろく, kiroku )
Latvian: rokraksts m , manuskripts m
Norwegian: manuskript n
Occitan: manuscrich (oc)
Polish: maszynopis (pl) m , rękopis (pl) m
Portuguese: manuscrito (pt) m
Russian: ру́копись (ru) f ( rúkopisʹ ) , манускри́пт (ru) m ( manuskrípt )
Scottish Gaelic: làmh-sgrìobhainn f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: рукопис m
Roman: rȕkopīs (sh) m
Spanish: manuscrito (es) m
Swedish: manuskript (sv)
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Albanian: (please verify ) dorëshkrim (sq) ?
Arabic: (please verify ) مَخْطَوطَة كِتَابِيَّة f
Estonian: (please verify ) käsikiri
German: (please verify ) Manuskript (de) n , (please verify ) Handschrift (de) f , (please verify ) Kodex (de) m
Hindi: (please verify ) हस्तलेख (hi) ( hastalekh ) , (please verify ) हस्तलिपि (hi) ( hastalipi )
Indonesian: (please verify ) naskah (id)
Korean: ( sabon ) (please verify ) 사본 (ko) ( sabon ) , ( wongo ) (please verify ) 원고 (ko) ( won'go )
Latvian: (please verify ) rokraksts m , (please verify ) manuskripts m
Lithuanian: (please verify ) rankraštis (lt) , (please verify ) manuskriptas (lt)
Maltese: (please verify ) manuskritt m
Romanian: (please verify ) manuscris (ro) m
Serbo-Croatian: (please verify ) manuskript (sh) m
Slovak: (please verify ) rukopis m
Slovene: (please verify ) rokopis (sl) m
Tagalog: (please verify ) manuskrito , (please verify ) orihinal
Thai: (please verify ) เอกสารที่เขียนด้วยมือ ( àyk săan têe kĭan dûay meu ) , (please verify ) ต้นฉบับ (th) ( dtôn chàbàp ) , (please verify ) ต้นร่าง ( dtôn râang ) , (please verify ) ระบับ ( rábàp )
Turkish: (please verify ) el yazması (tr)
Ukrainian: (please verify ) рукопис m ( rukopys )
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