script
- See Wiktionary:Scripts for information about scripts on Wiktionary.
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English scrit, borrowed from Old French escrit, from Latin scriptum (something written), from scrībō (“write”).
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NounEdit
script (countable and uncountable, plural scripts)
- (countable, obsolete) A writing; a written document.
- Synonyms: cursive, hand, handwriting, manuscript
- Written characters; style of writing.
- (typography) Type made in imitation of handwriting.
- Synonym: cursive
- (countable, law) An original instrument or document.
- (countable) The written document containing the dialogue and action for a drama; the text of a stage play, movie, or other performance. Especially, the final form used for the performance itself.
- Hyponyms: screenplay, teleplay
- (computing) A file containing a list of user commands, allowing them to be invoked once to execute in sequence.
- Synonyms: batch file, macro, shell script
- Hyponyms: coffeescript, here-script, postscript
- (psychology) A behavioral script; sequence of actions in a given situation.
- (linguistics) A system of writing adapted to a particular language or set of languages.
- Synonyms: language script, writing system
- (informal) Short for prescription. (for drugs or medicine)
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VerbEdit
script (third-person singular simple present scripts, present participle scripting, simple past and past participle scripted)
- (transitive) To make or write a script.
- (transitive) To devise, concoct, or contrive.
- 2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, , page 487:
- Such hedging is necessitated by the lack of in-depth knowledge of the contents, which also gives free rein to the scripting of unsubstantiated factoids concerning the book.
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ReferencesEdit
- script in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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DutchEdit
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NounEdit
script n (plural scripts, diminutive scriptje n)
- script (written text of a dramatic performance)
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FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English script. Doublet of écrit.
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NounEdit
script m (plural scripts)
- script (written dialogue for a play, film, etc.)
Further readingEdit
- “script”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
HungarianEdit
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script (plural scriptek)
DeclensionEdit
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | script | scriptek |
accusative | scriptet | scripteket |
dative | scriptnek | scripteknek |
instrumental | scripttel | scriptekkel |
causal-final | scriptért | scriptekért |
translative | scriptté | scriptekké |
terminative | scriptig | scriptekig |
essive-formal | scriptként | scriptekként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | scriptben | scriptekben |
superessive | scripten | scripteken |
adessive | scriptnél | scripteknél |
illative | scriptbe | scriptekbe |
sublative | scriptre | scriptekre |
allative | scripthez | scriptekhez |
elative | scriptből | scriptekből |
delative | scriptről | scriptekről |
ablative | scripttől | scriptektől |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
scripté | scripteké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
scriptéi | scriptekéi |
Possessive forms of script | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | scriptem | scriptjeim |
2nd person sing. | scripted | scriptjeid |
3rd person sing. | scriptje | scriptjei |
1st person plural | scriptünk | scriptjeink |
2nd person plural | scriptetek | scriptjeitek |
3rd person plural | scriptjük | scriptjeik |
Norwegian BokmålEdit
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EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English script, from Middle English scrit, Old French escrit, and ultimately Latin scriptum (“something written”).
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script n (definite singular scriptet, indefinite plural script, definite plural scripta or scriptene)
- (computing) a script (list of commands)
- (colloquial, cinematography) a script (written document containing dialogue)
script m (definite singular scripten, indefinite plural scripter, definite plural scriptene)
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Norwegian NynorskEdit
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EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English script, from Middle English scrit, Old French escrit, and ultimately Latin scriptum (“something written”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
script n (definite singular scriptet, indefinite plural script, definite plural scripta)
- (computing) a script (list of commands)
- (colloquial, cinematography) a script (written document containing dialogue)
script m (definite singular scripten, indefinite plural scriptar, definite plural scriptane)
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PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
Unadapted borrowing from English script. Doublet of escrito.
NounEdit
script m (plural scripts)
- (acting) script (text of the dialogue and action for a drama)
- Synonym: roteiro
- (computing) script (source code that is interpreted rather than compiled)
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RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Initially inherited from Latin scriptum as the past participle of scrie, which was later replaced by scris. The current meaning is borrowed from English script.
NounEdit
script n (plural scripturi)
- script (of a film, play, show, etc.)
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singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) script | scriptul | (niște) scripturi | scripturile |
genitive/dative | (unui) script | scriptului | (unor) scripturi | scripturilor |
vocative | scriptule | scripturilor |