scriptum
Latin
Etymology
Perfect participle of scrībō (“write”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈskriːp.tum/, [ˈs̠kriːpt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈskrip.tum/, [ˈskript̪um]
Noun
scrīptum n (genitive scrīptī); second declension
- text; anything written, writing
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | 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
- English: script, shrift
- French: écrit
- Italian: scritto
- → Middle High German: schrift
- German: Schrift
- Yiddish: שריפֿט (shrift)
- Occitan: escrit
- → Old Dutch: skrifti
- Middle Dutch: scrift, scricht
- Dutch: schrift
- Afrikaans: skrif
- Berbice Creole Dutch: skrifu
- Negerhollands: skrift
- → Caribbean Javanese: sekrip
- → Indonesian: skrip
- → Papiamentu: skref, skrif
- Dutch: schrift
- Middle Dutch: scrift, scricht
- Portuguese: escrito
- Romanian: script
- Spanish: escrito
- Venetian: scrito
Participle
scrīptum
- inflection of scrīptus:
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
- accusative masculine singular
Verb
scrīptum
- supine accusative 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, 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
- (ambiguous) from memory; by heart: ex memoria (opp. de scripto)