manuscript

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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] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "gem" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. 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.

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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.

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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

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Middle French

Noun

manuscript m (plural manuscripts)

  1. manuscript

Descendants

  • French: manuscrit