Scribe

Noun

 * 1) One who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis or secretary; a notary; a copyist.
 * 2)  A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.
 * 3) A very sharp, steel drawing implement used in engraving and etching, a scriber.
 * 4) A writer, especially a journalist.

Synonyms

 * amanuensis
 * scrivener
 * tabellion

Derived terms

 * scribal

Verb

 * 1) To write.
 * 2) To record.
 * 3) To write or draw with a scribe.

Related terms

 * ascribe
 * circumscribe
 * describe
 * inscribe
 * prescribe
 * proscribe
 * shrive
 * transcribe

Adjectives for Scribe
romantic; daily; deft; professional; poison-spirited; capable.

Thesaurus
Levite, accountant, advertising writer, amanuensis, annalist, archivist, art critic, author, authoress, baal kore, belletrist, bibliographer, bookkeeper, calligrapher, cantor, carve, chase, chief rabbi, chirographer, clerk, coauthor, collaborator, columnist, commentator, compiler, composer, copier, copy, copy out, copyist, copywriter, creative writer, critic, dance critic, diarist, documentalist, draft, drama critic, dramatist, dramaturge, draw up, edit, editor, enchase, encyclopedist, enface, engrave, engraver, engross, essayist, etch, filing clerk, free lance, free-lance writer, ghost, ghostwriter, gossip columnist, grave, hack, high priest, humorist, incise, indite, inditer, ink spiller, inkslinger, inscribe, journalist, kohen, letterer, librarian, literary artist, literary craftsman, literary critic, literary man, litterateur, logographer, magazine writer, make a recension, make out, man of letters, mark, marker, monographer, music critic, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, notary, notary public, novelettist, novelist, pamphleteer, paragraphist, pen, pencil, pencil driver, penman, penner, penny-a-liner, penwoman, playwright, poet, priest, prose writer, prothonotary, push the pen, put in writing, rabbi, rabbin, recense, record, record clerk, recorder, recording secretary, recordist, register, registrar, reporter, reviewer, revise, rewrite, scenario writer, scenarist, score, scorekeeper, scorer, scratch, scribbler, scriptwriter, scrive, scrivener, scroll, secretary, short-story writer, sob sister, spill ink, spoil paper, stenographer, stonecutter, storyteller, superscribe, technical writer, timekeeper, trace, transcribe, transcriber, type, word painter, word-slinger, wordsmith, write, write down, write out, writer

Etymology
From Late scriba: (used in Vulgate to render Ancient Greek γραμματεύς "scribe, secretary", which had been used in its turn to render the Hebrew סופר "writer, scholar") from scribere:, probably akin to scrobs:.

Noun

 * Czech: pisař
 * Finnish: kirjuri
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: טפסר (tafsar)
 * Macedonian: писар


 * Manx: screeudeyr
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: scrib, copist
 * Russian: писарь,
 * Serbian: pisar, pisarica
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish: lainoppinut


 * French:


 * Finnish: piirrin


 * Finnish:


 * Manx: screeudeyr

Verb

 * Finnish:
 * Icelandic: skrifa


 * Macedonian: пишува


 * Finnish:
 * Icelandic: rita, skrá


 * Macedonian: запишува
 * Old Norse:


 * Finnish: piirrottaa

Verb
scribe