manuscript

English

Etymology

1597, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin manuscriptum (“writing by hand”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin manu (ablative of manus (“hand”)) + scriptus (past participle of scribere (“to write”)), calqued from a word of (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  origin, compare Middle High German hantschrift, hantgeschrift (“manuscript”) (c. 1450), Old English handġewrit (“what is written by hand, deed, contract, manuscript”) (before 1150), Old Norse handrit (“manuscript”) (before 1300).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmænjəˌskɹɪpt/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: man‧u‧script

Adjective

manuscript (not comparable)

1. handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically reproduced.

Translations

handwritten, or by extension typewritten

• Arabic: مَخْطُوطَة f (maḵṭūṭa)
• Azerbaijani: əlyazma (az)
• Bashkir: ҡулъяҙма (qulʺyaźma), ҡулдан (quldan) яҙылған (yaźılğan)
• Catalan: manuscrit (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 手寫的／手写的, 手写的 (shǒuxiě de)

• Dutch: handgeschreven (nl), geschreven (nl)
• Finnish: käsin kirjoitettu
• French: manuscrit (fr)
• Georgian: ხელნაწერი (xelnac̣eri), მანუსკრიპტი (ka) (manusḳriṗṭi)
• German: Handscrift, Manuskript (de)
• Greek: χειρόγραφο (el) n (cheirógrafo)
• Italian: manoscritto (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 手書きの (てがきの, tegaki no)
• Khmer: អក្សរដៃ (aksɑɑ day)
• Malay: manuskrip
• Persian: دست‌نوشته (fa) (dast-nevešteh), دست‌نویس (dast-nevis), نسخه خطی (nosxeh khatti), مخطوطه (maxtuteh)

• Polish: odręczny (pl), rękopiśmienny (pl)
• Portuguese: manuscrito (pt)
• Russian: рукопи́сный (ru) (rukopísnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: рукописни, руком писани

  Roman: rukopisni (sh), rukom pisani

• Spanish: manuscrito (es) m
• Walloon: scrît al mwin m

Noun

manuscript (plural manuscripts)

1. A book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in 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”, in 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.

2. 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.

Synonyms

• ms or ms.

Derived terms

• manuscriptal
• manuscription

Synonyms

• handwrit
• autograph
• handwriting

Related terms

• script
• typescript

Translations

book, composition or any other document, written by hand

• Afrikaans: manuskrip
• Arabic: مَخْطُوطَة f (maḵṭūṭa), مَخْطُوط m (maḵṭūṭ)
• Armenian: մատյան (hy) (matyan), ձեռագիր (hy) (jeṙagir)
• Azerbaijani: əlyazı, əlyazma (az)
• Bashkir: ҡулъяҙма (qulʺyaźma)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: manuscrit (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 手稿 (zh) (shǒugǎo), 手抄本 (shǒuchāoběn), 原稿 (zh) (yuángǎo)

• Czech: rukopis m
• Danish: håndskrift n, manuskript n
• Dutch: manuscript (nl) n, handschrift (nl) n
• Esperanto: manuskripto, manskribaĵo
• Estonian: käsikiri
• Finnish: käsikirjoitus (fi)
• French: manuscrit (fr) m
• Georgian: ხელნაწერი (xelnac̣eri)
• German: Handschrift (de) f
• Greek: χειρόγραφο (el) n (cheirógrafo)
• Hebrew: כְּתָב יָד (he) m (ktav yad)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: kézirat (hu)
• Italian: manoscritto (it) m
• Japanese: 手書き原稿 (てがきげんこう, tegaki-genkō), 写本 (しゃほん, shahon), 手写本 (しゅしゃぼん, shushabon), マニュスクリプト (manyusukuriputo)
• Khmer: សាត្រាស្លឹករឹត (sattra slǝk riit), សាស្ត្រា (saahstraa), គម្ពីរ (km) (kumpii), ក្រាំង (km) (kraŋ)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Lao: ໜັງສື​​ໃບລານ (nang sư̄ bai lān), ຫນັງສື​​ໃບລານ (nang sư̄ bai lān)
• Latvian: rokraksts m, manuskripts m
• Lithuanian: rankraštis (lt) m, manuskriptas (lt) m
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: manuskript n
• Occitan: manuscrich (oc) m, manuscrit
• Old English: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: دست‌نوشته (fa) (dast-nevešte), نسخه خطی (nosxe-ye xatti)
• Polish: rękopis (pl) m, manuskrypt (pl) m
• Portuguese: manuscrito (pt) m
• Romanian: manuscris (ro)
• Russian: ру́копись (ru) f (rúkopisʹ), манускри́пт (ru) m (manuskrípt)
• Scottish Gaelic: làmh-sgrìobhainn f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: рукопис m

  Roman: rȕkopīs (sh) m

• Spanish: manuscrito (es) m
• Swedish: manuskript (sv), handskrift (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: yazma (tr)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Walloon: papîscrît (wa) m

book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication

• Armenian: բնագիր (hy) (bnagir), ձեռագիր (hy) (jeṙagir)
• Bashkir: ҡулъяҙма (qulʺyaźma)
• Catalan: manuscrit (ca) m, original (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 原稿 (zh) (yuángǎo), 草稿 (zh) (cǎogǎo)

• Czech: rukopis m
• Danish: manuskript n
• Dutch: manuscript (nl) n, kopij (nl) f
• Esperanto: manuskripto
• Finnish: käsikirjoitus (fi)
• French: manuscrit (fr) m
• Greek: χειρόγραφο (el) n (cheirógrafo)
• Hungarian: kézirat (hu)
• Italian: manoscritto (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 原稿 (ja) (げんこう, genkō), 草稿 (ja) (そうこう, sōkō), 稿本 (こうほん, kōhon), 稿 (ja) (こう, kō), 記録 (ja) (きろく, kiroku)
• Latvian: rokraksts m, manuskripts m
• Norwegian: manuskript n
• Occitan: manuscrich (oc)
• Polish: maszynopis (pl) m, rękopis (pl) m
• Portuguese: manuscrito (pt) m
• Russian: ру́копись (ru) f (rúkopisʹ), манускри́пт (ru) m (manuskrípt)
• Scottish Gaelic: làmh-sgrìobhainn f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: рукопис m

  Roman: rȕkopīs (sh) m

• Spanish: manuscrito (es) m
• Swedish: manuskript (sv)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} dorëshkrim (sq) ?
• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} مَخْطَوطَة كِتَابِيَّة f
• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} ръкопис m (rǎkopis)
• Estonian: ^{(please verify)} käsikiri
• German: ^{(please verify)} Manuskript (de) n, ^{(please verify)} Handschrift (de) f, ^{(please verify)} Kodex (de) m
• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} כְּתַב יָד (he) m
• Hindi: ^{(please verify)} हस्तलेख (hi) (hastalekh), ^{(please verify)} हस्तलिपि (hi) (hastalipi)
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} naskah (id)
• Korean: (sabon) ^{(please verify)} 사본 (ko) (sabon), (wongo) ^{(please verify)} 원고 (ko) (won'go)
• Latvian: ^{(please verify)} rokraksts m, ^{(please verify)} manuskripts m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} rankraštis (lt), ^{(please verify)} manuskriptas (lt)
• Maltese: ^{(please verify)} manuskritt m
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} manuscris (ro) m
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} manuskript (sh) m
• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} rukopis m
• Slovene: ^{(please verify)} rokopis (sl) m
• Tagalog: ^{(please verify)} manuskrito, ^{(please verify)} orihinal
• Thai: ^{(please verify)} เอกสารที่เขียนด้วยมือ (àyk săan têe kĭan dûay meu), ^{(please verify)} ต้นฉบับ (th) (dtôn chàbàp), ^{(please verify)} ต้นร่าง (dtôn râang), ^{(please verify)} ระบับ (rábàp)
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} el yazması (tr)
• Ukrainian: ^{(please verify)} рукопис m (rukopys)

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Dutch

Etymology

From Medieval Latin manuscrīptum (“writing by hand”), neuter of manuscrīptus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmaː.nyˈskrɪpt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: man‧u‧script

Noun

manuscript n (plural manuscripten, diminutive manuscriptje n)

1. A manuscript, written (not printed) text or composition
2. A manuscript submitted for reproductive publication

Synonyms

• (not reproduced) handschrift

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Middle French

Noun

manuscript m (plural manuscripts)

1. manuscript

Descendants

• French: manuscrit