scriptorium
English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin scrīptōrium, from Latin scrīptōrius (“pertaining to writing”). Doublet of escritoire.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: scrip‧to‧ri‧um
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Noun
scriptorium (plural scriptoria or scriptoriums)
- (countable) A room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts and records, especially such a room in a monastery.
- 1907, G. Roger Huddleston, "Scriptorium" in The Catholic Encyclopedia, volume 13
- The rules of the scriptorium varied in different monasteries, but artificial light was forbidden for fear of injury to the manuscripts, and silence was always enforced.
- 2008, James Ronald Royse, Scribal Habits in Early Greek New Testament Papyri, chapter 7, page 499
- Nevertheless, Aland criticized Martin's suggestion that the codex was the product of the scriptorium attached to a monastery,536 on the grounds that there is no evidence for the existence of monasteries in the year 200, or for the existence of scriptoria at all connected with the Church at that early date.
- 2009, Fred S. Kleiner, Gardner's Art Through the Ages: The Western Perspective, 13th edition, volume 1, page 289
- Among the earliest Hiberno-Saxon illuminated manuscripts is the Book of Durrow, a Gospel book that may have been written and decorated in the monastic scriptorium at Iona, although its provenance is not documented.
- 1907, G. Roger Huddleston, "Scriptorium" in The Catholic Encyclopedia, volume 13
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Translations
room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts
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Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin scrīptōrium.
Pronunciation
Noun
scriptorium n (plural scriptoria)
- scriptorium (place where manuscripts are produced)
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin scrīptōrium. Doublet of écritoire.
Pronunciation
Noun
scriptorium m (plural scriptoria)
Further reading
- “scriptorium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Etymology
From scrīptor (“writer, author”) + -ium
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /skriːpˈtoː.ri.um/, [s̠kriːpˈt̪oːriʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /skripˈto.ri.um/, [skripˈt̪ɔːrium]
Noun
scrīptōrium n (genitive scrīptōriī or scrīptōrī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | scrīptōrium | scrīptōria |
Genitive | scrīptōriī scrīptōrī1 |
scrīptōriōrum |
Dative | scrīptōriō | scrīptōriīs |
Accusative | scrīptōrium | scrīptōria |
Ablative | scrīptōriō | scrīptōriīs |
Vocative | scrīptōrium | scrīptōria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
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Adjective
(deprecated template usage) scrīptōrium
- nominative neuter singular of scrīptōrius
- accusative masculine singular of scrīptōrius
- accusative neuter singular of scrīptōrius
- vocative neuter singular of scrīptōrius
References
- scriptorium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- scriptorium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
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