scrivano
See also: Scrivano
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian scrivano. Doublet of scrivener and escribano.
Noun edit
scrivano (plural scrivanos or scrivanoes)
- (archaic) A scribe or clerk.
- 1813, Robert Kerr, A General History of Voyages and Travels to the End of the 18th Century:
- We dined that day with the scrivano, and hired a house of Hassan Aga, one of our pledges, at seventy dollars the monsoon, or yearly rent, it being all the same.
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Italian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *scrībānem (with later change of declension), accusative of Latin *scrība, from Latin scrība (“writer, scribe”), with altered declension. Compare Occitan escrivan, French écrivain, Spanish escribano. Doublet of scriba.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
scrivano m (plural scrivani)
Noun edit
scrivano m (plural scrivani, feminine scrivana)
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Further reading edit
- scrivano in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- scrivano in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
scrivano
- inflection of scrivere: