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Etymology edit

Latin scrīptor, to avoid the etymological link between author and authority.

Noun edit

scriptor (plural scriptors)

  1. (literature) A writer, regarded as producing a work but not as providing its explanation (which is instead determined by the reader), according to the theories of Roland Barthes.
    • 2021, Vicent Cucarella Ramon, Benjamin Drew: The Refugee. Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada, page 44:
      Although this literary exercise has been used to question the validity of Drew's book, the little biographies he offered acquire a worthy literary dimension if read using Foucault's critique to the Barthesian scriptor.

Latin edit

Etymology edit

From scrībō (I write) +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

scrīptor m (genitive scrīptōris, feminine scrīptrīx); third declension

  1. writer, author
  2. scribe

Declension edit

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative scrīptor scrīptōrēs
Genitive scrīptōris scrīptōrum
Dative scrīptōrī scrīptōribus
Accusative scrīptōrem scrīptōrēs
Ablative scrīptōre scrīptōribus
Vocative scrīptor scrīptōrēs

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  • scriptor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • scriptor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • scriptor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • scriptor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • later writers: scriptores aetate posteriores or inferiores
    • an historian: rerum scriptor
    • we read in history: apud rerum scriptores scriptum videmus, scriptum est
    • a writer of tragedy, comedy: scriptor tragoediarum, comoediarum, also (poeta) tragicus, comicus
    • a writer of fables: scriptor fabularum
    • the work when translated; translation (concrete): liber (scriptoris) conversus, translatus
    • the writer, author: scriptor (not auctor = guarantor)
    • the book contains something... (not continet aliquid): libro scriptor complexus est aliquid
    • our (not noster) author tells us at this point: scriptor hoc loco dicit
    • the text of the author (not textus): verba, oratio, exemplum scriptoris
    • a legislator: legum scriptor, conditor, inventor