See also: Scrivano

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian scrivano. Doublet of scrivener and escribano.

Noun

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scrivano (plural scrivanos or scrivanoes)

  1. (archaic) A scribe or clerk.
    • 1813, Robert Kerr, A General History of Voyages and Travels to the End of the 18th Century:
      We dined that day with the scrivano, and hired a house of Hassan Aga, one of our pledges, at seventy dollars the monsoon, or yearly rent, it being all the same.

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin *scrībānem (with later change of declension), accusative of Latin *scrība, from Latin scrība (writer, scribe), with altered declension. Compare Occitan escrivan, French écrivain, Spanish escribano. Doublet of scriba.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /skriˈva.no/
  • Rhymes: -ano
  • Hyphenation: scri‧và‧no

Noun

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scrivano m (plural scrivani)

  1. scribe

Noun

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scrivano m (plural scrivani, feminine scrivana)

  1. clerk
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Further reading

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  • scrivano in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
  • scrivano in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈskri.va.no/
  • Rhymes: -ivano
  • Hyphenation: scrì‧va‧no

Verb

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scrivano

  1. inflection of scrivere:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative

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