scribeとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /skɹaɪb/
• 韻: -aɪb

名詞

scribe (複数形 scribes)

1. Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary, or copyist.
   • 2013 September 14, Jane Shilling, “The Golden Thread: the Story of Writing, by Ewan Clayton, review [print edition: Illuminating language]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)‎^[1], page R28:

     [T]he pleasure of writing on wax with a stylus is exemplified by the fine, flowing hand of a Roman scribe who made out the birth certificate of Herennia Gemella, born March 128 AD.

   1. A person who writes books or documents by hand as a profession.^W
      • 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:

        The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, […] . Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.

2. (informal) A journalist.
3. (archaic) A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.
4. A very sharp, steel drawing implement used in engraving and etching, a scriber.

同意語

• amanuensis
• scrivener
• tabellion

派生語

• scribal
• scribely
• scribacious

動詞

scribe (三人称単数 現在形 scribes, 現在分詞 scribing, 過去形および過去分詞形 scribed)

1. To write.
2. To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.
   • c. 1597–1598, Edmund Spenser, “Two Cantos of Mutabilitie: […]”, in The Faerie Qveene, […], London: […] H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes, published 1609, OCLC 1191025313, book VII, canto VI, stanza 35, page 356:

     There—at Ioue wexed wroth, and in his ſpright / Did inly grudge, yet did it well conceale; / And bade Dan Phœbus Scribe her Appellation ſeale.

   • 1812, Anonymous, The Trial

     he scribed his name on the mould, and wrote it on the two pieces of pasteboard

3. To record, as a scribe.
4. To write or draw with a scribe.
5. (carpentry) To cut (something) in order to fit it closely to an irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a moulding, etc.
6. To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.

関連する語

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

参考

• notary

Further reading

• scribe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• scribe in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

Latin

動詞

scrībe

1. second-person singular present active imperative of scrībō