Latin

Noun

scrīptor m ‎(genitive scrīptōris); third declension

1. writer, author
2. scribe

Inflection

Third declension.

Related terms

• scrīptrīx

Descendants

References

• scriptor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• scriptor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• SCRIPTOR in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “scriptor”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • later writers: scriptores aetate posteriores or inferiores
    
  • an historian: rerum scriptor
    
  • we read in history: apud rerum scriptores scriptum videmus, scriptum est
    
  • a writer of tragedy, comedy: scriptor tragoediarum, comoediarum, also (poeta) tragicus, comicus
    
  • a writer of fables: scriptor fabularum
    
  • the work when translated; translation (concrete): liber (scriptoris) conversus, translatus
    
  • the writer, author: scriptor (not auctor = guarantor)
    
  • the book contains something... (not continet aliquid): libro scriptor complexus est aliquid
    
  • our (not noster) author tells us at this point: scriptor hoc loco dicit
    
  • the text of the author (not textus): verba, oratio, exemplum scriptoris
    
  • a legislator: legum scriptor, conditor, inventor