scribillo
Latin
editEtymology
editPossibly a back-formation from cōnscrībillō, or else from scrībō (“I write”) + -illō (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /skriːˈbil.loː/, [s̠kriːˈbɪlːʲoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /skriˈbil.lo/, [skriˈbilːo]
Verb
editscrībillō (present infinitive scrībillāre, perfect active scrībillāvī, supine scrībillātum); first conjugation
- (New Latin) to scribble or write of trivial matters
- 1876, Léon Cahun, The Adventures of Captain Mago: Or a Phoenician Expedition, B. C. 1000 Ch. 1, para. 40, (morphology note: scribillatores is a transparent substantive form of scribillo):
- He has lived among women and scribblers until he had no more pluck in him than a garden-tortoise.
- 1914 translation by Arcadius Avellanus
- Hic enim vitam medio inter scribillatores mulierculasque degere sciens est usque adeo, ut animo virili haud plus testudine hortensi polleat.
- 1914 translation by Arcadius Avellanus
- He has lived among women and scribblers until he had no more pluck in him than a garden-tortoise.
- 2012, Nemo Nusquam, Verba et Facta[1] De donis in Christi Nativitatem emendis:
- ...ut tempus tererem quo deberem potius aliquid academicum scribillare.
- ...to waste time which I should rather spend scribbling some journal article.
- ...ut tempus tererem quo deberem potius aliquid academicum scribillare.