manuscript
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Etymology[edit]
1597, from Medieval Latin manuscriptum (“writing by hand”), from Latin manu (ablative of manus (“hand”)) + scriptus (past participle of scribere (“to write”)), calqued from a word of Germanic origin, compare Middle High German hantschrift, hantgeschrift (c. 1450, “manuscript”), Old English handġewrit (before 1150, “what is written by hand, deed, contract, manuscript”), Old Norse handrit (before 1300, “manuscript”).
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Adjective[edit]
manuscript (comparative more manuscript, superlative most manuscript)
- Which is handwritten, or by extension typewritten, as opposed to mechanical reproduction.
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handwritten, or by extension typewritten
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Noun[edit]
manuscript (plural manuscripts)
- A book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, The Celebrity:
- In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.
- 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, American Scientist:
- The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, […] . Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, The Celebrity:
- A single, original copy of a book, article, composition etc, written by hand or even printed, submitted as original for (copy-editing and) reproductive publication.
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book, composition or any other document, written by hand
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book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication
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Hyphenation: ma‧nu‧script
Etymology[edit]
1597, from Medieval Latin manuscriptum (“writing by hand”), from Latin manu (ablative of manus (“hand”)) + scriptus (past participle of scribere (“to write”)), calqued from a word of Germanic origin, compare Middle High German hantschrift, hantgeschrift (c. 1450, “manuscript”), Old English handġewrit (before 1150, “what is written by hand, deed, contract, manuscript”), Old Norse handrit (before 1300, “manuscript”).
Noun[edit]
manuscript n (plural manuscripten, diminutive manuscriptje n)
- A manuscript, written (not printed) text or composition
- A manuscript submitted for reproductive publication
Synonyms[edit]
- (not reproduced) handschrift {n}}
Middle French[edit]
Noun[edit]
manuscript m (plural manuscripts)
Descendants[edit]
- French: manuscrit
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- English terms derived from Medieval Latin
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Germanic languages
- English adjectives
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- Dutch terms derived from Medieval Latin
- Dutch terms derived from Latin
- Dutch terms derived from Germanic languages
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with plural in -en
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