manuscrit

Catalan

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Medieval Latin manūscriptum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [mə.nusˈkɾit]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ma.nusˈkɾit]

• Audio (Catalonia):

  (file)

Noun

manuscrit m (plural manuscrits)

1. manuscript

Further reading

• “manuscrit”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “manuscrit”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “manuscrit” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “manuscrit”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

French

Etymology

1594, 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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.nys.kʁi/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

Adjective

manuscrit (feminine manuscrite, masculine plural manuscrits, feminine plural manuscrites)

1. manuscript (handwritten, or by extension typewritten)

Noun

manuscrit m (plural manuscrits)

1. manuscript

Further reading

• “manuscrit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Friulian

Adjective

manuscrit

1. manuscript (handwritten, or by extension typewritten)

Noun

manuscrit m (plural manuscrits)

1. manuscript

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian manuscritto or French manuscrit.

Noun

manuscrit n (plural manuscrite)

1. manuscript

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	manuscrit	manuscritul	manuscrite	manuscritele
genitive-dative	manuscrit	manuscritului	manuscrite	manuscritelor
vocative	manuscritule		manuscritelor