scriptum

Latin

Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-?

Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreybʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybʰeti

Proto-Italic *skreiβō

Latin scrībō

Latin scrīptum

Perfect participle of scrībō (“write”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈskriːp.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈskrip.tum]

Noun

scrīptum n (genitive scrīptī); second declension

1. text; anything written, writing

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	scrīptum	scrīpta
genitive	scrīptī	scrīptōrum
dative	scrīptō	scrīptīs
accusative	scrīptum	scrīpta
ablative	scrīptō	scrīptīs
vocative	scrīptum	scrīpta

Synonyms

• scrīptiō

Related terms

• scrība
• scrībātus
• scrīnium
• scrīptilis
• scrīptiō
• scrīptiōnālis
• scrīptitō
• scrīptiuncula
• scrīptor
• scrīptōrium
• scrīptōrius
• scrīptula
• scrīptūra
• scrīptūriō
• scrīptus

Descendants

• Catalan: escrit
• French: écrit
• → German: Skript, Skriptum
• Italian: scritto
• Portuguese: escrito
• Romanian: script
• Spanish: escrito
• Venetan: scrito
• → English: script
• → Proto-West Germanic: *skrifti (see there for further descendants)

Participle

scrīptum

1. inflection of scrīptus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

Verb

scrīptum

1. accusative supine of scrībō

Related terms

terms related to scrīptum

• scrība
• scrībātus
• scrībō
• scrīnium
• scrīptilis
• scrīptiō
• scrīptiōnālis
• scrīptitō
• scrīptiuncula
• scrīptor
• scrīptōrium
• scrīptōrius
• scrīptula
• scrīptūra
• scrīptūriō
• scrīptus

References

• “scriptum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “scriptum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “scriptum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) from memory; by heart: ex memoria (opp. de scripto)
    
  • (ambiguous) we read in history: apud rerum scriptores scriptum videmus, scriptum est
    
  • (ambiguous) to read a speech: de scripto orationem habere, dicere (opp. sine scripto, ex memoria)
    
  • (ambiguous) to hold by the letter (of the law): verba ac litteras or scriptum (legis) sequi (opp. sententia the spirit)
    
  • (ambiguous) we read in Plato: apud Platonem scriptum videmus, scriptum est or simply est
    
  • (ambiguous) in Plato's 'Phaedo' we read: in Platonis Phaedone scriptum est
    
  • (ambiguous) a man's soul breathes through his writings: alicuius mens in scriptis spirat
    
  • (ambiguous) full of orthographical errors: mendose scriptum
    
  • (ambiguous) a letter to Atticus: epistula ad Atticum data, scripta, missa or quae ad A. scripta est
    
  • (ambiguous) the law says..: in lege scriptum est, or simply est