scriptorium
English edit
Etymology edit
From Medieval Latin scrīptōrium, from Latin scrīptōrius (“pertaining to writing”). Doublet of escritoire.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /skɹɪpˈtɔː.ɹɪəm/
- (General American) IPA(key): /skɹɪpˈtɔɹ.i.əm/
- Hyphenation: scrip‧to‧ri‧um
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Noun edit
scriptorium (plural scriptoria or scriptoriums)
- (countable) A room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts and records, especially such a room in a monastery.
- 1912, G[ilbert] Roger Hudleston, “Scriptorium”, in Charles G[eorge] Herbermann, Edward A[loysius] Pace, Condé B[enoist] Pallen, Thomas J[oseph] Shahan, John J[oseph] Wynne, editors, The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church, volume XIII (Revelation–Simon Stock), New York, N.Y.: Robert Appleton Company, →OCLC, page 635, column 1:
- The rules of the scriptorium varied in different monasteries, but artificial light was forbidden for fear of injury to the manuscripts, and silence was always enforced.
- 2008, James Ronald Royse, chapter 7, in Scribal Habits in Early Greek New Testament Papyri, page 499:
- Nevertheless, Aland criticized Martin's suggestion that the codex was the product of the scriptorium attached to a monastery,536 on the grounds that there is no evidence for the existence of monasteries in the year 200, or for the existence of scriptoria at all connected with the Church at that early date.
- 2009, Fred S. Kleiner, Gardner's Art Through the Ages: The Western Perspective, 13th edition, volume 1, page 289:
- Among the earliest Hiberno-Saxon illuminated manuscripts is the Book of Durrow, a Gospel book that may have been written and decorated in the monastic scriptorium at Iona, although its provenance is not documented.
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Translations edit
room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts
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Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin scrīptōrium.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
scriptorium n (plural scriptoria)
- scriptorium (place where manuscripts are produced)
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Medieval Latin scrīptōrium. Doublet of écritoire.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
scriptorium m (plural scriptoria)
Further reading edit
- “scriptorium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From scrīptor (“writer, author”) + -ium or equivalently, scrībō (“to write”) + -tōrium (suffix forming nouns denoting places).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /skriːpˈtoː.ri.um/, [s̠kriːpˈt̪oːriʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /skripˈto.ri.um/, [skripˈt̪ɔːrium]
Noun edit
scrīptōrium n (genitive scrīptōriī or scrīptōrī); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | scrīptōrium | scrīptōria |
| Genitive | scrīptōriī scrīptōrī1 |
scrīptōriōrum |
| Dative | scrīptōriō | scrīptōriīs |
| Accusative | scrīptōrium | scrīptōria |
| Ablative | scrīptōriō | scrīptōriīs |
| Vocative | scrīptōrium | scrīptōria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
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Descendants edit
- Inherited:
- Borrowed:
- → Catalan: escriptori
- → Italian: scrittorio
- → Portuguese: escritório
- → Spanish: escritorio
Adjective edit
scrīptōrium
- inflection of scrīptōrius:
References edit
- scriptorium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- scriptorium 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)