scriptorium
English
WOTD – 24 November 2012, 24 November 2014
Etymology
From Medieval Latin scrīptōrium, from Latin scrīptōrius (“pertaining to writing”). Doublet of escritoire.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /skɹɪpˈtɔː.ɹɪəm/
- (General American) IPA(key): /skɹɪpˈtɔɹ.i.əm/
- 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, The Catholic Encyclopedia, volume 13, Scriptorium:
- 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, chapter 7, in Scribal Habits in Early Greek New Testament Papyri, 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, volume 1, 13th edition edition, 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.
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Related terms
- scribe
- script
Translations
room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts
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Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin scrīptōrium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌskrɪpˈtoː.ri.ʏm/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: scrip‧to‧ri‧um
- Rhymes: -oːriʏm
Noun
scriptorium n (plural scriptoria)
- scriptorium (place where manuscripts are produced)
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin scrīptōrium. Doublet of écritoire.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skʁip.tɔ.ʁjɔm/
Noun
scriptorium m (plural scriptoria)
- a scriptorium
Further reading
- “scriptorium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Etymology
From scrīptor (“writer, author”) + -ium or equivalently, scrībō (“to write”) + -tōrium (suffix forming nouns denoting places).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /skriːpˈtoː.ri.um/, [s̠kriːpˈt̪oːriʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /skripˈto.ri.um/, [skripˈt̪ɔːrium]
Noun
scrīptōrium n (genitive scrīptōriī or scrīptōrī); second declension
- writing desk, writing room
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).
Related terms
- scrība
- scrībātus
- scrīnium
- scrīptilis
- scrīptiō
- scrīptiōnālis
- scrīptitō
- scrīptiuncula
- scrīptor
- scrīptōrius
- scrīptula
- scrīptum
- scrīptūra
- scrīptūriō
- scrīptus
Descendants
- Inherited:
- Italian: scrittoio
- French: écritoire
- Borrowed:
- → Catalan: escriptori
- → Italian: scrittorio
- → Spanish: escritorio
Adjective
scrīptōrium
- inflection of scrīptōrius:
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
- accusative masculine singular
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)