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scriptura
scriptura
Latin
Etymology
From scrīptum + -tūra, from the supine of scrībō (“I write”).
Pronunciation 1
- (Classical) IPA(key): /skriːpˈtuː.ra/
Noun
scrīptūra f (genitive scrīptūrae); first declension
- a writing, something written
- a composition (act of writing)
- (Ecclesiatical Latin) a passage of scripture
Inflection
First declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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nominative | scrīptūra | scrīptūrae |
genitive | scrīptūrae | scrīptūrārum |
dative | scrīptūrae | scrīptūrīs |
accusative | scrīptūram | scrīptūrās |
ablative | scrīptūrā | scrīptūrīs |
vocative | scrīptūra | scrīptūrae |
Derived terms
- scrīptūrārius
Related terms
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Descendants
Participle
scrīptūra
- nominative feminine singular of scripturus
- nominative neuter plural of scripturus
- accusative neuter plural of scripturus
- vocative feminine singular of scripturus
- vocative neuter plural of scripturus
Pronunciation 2
Participle
scrīptūrā
- ablative feminine singular of scripturus
References
- scriptura in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- scriptura in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- SCRIPTURA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “scriptura”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
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(ambiguous) a clerical error, copyist's mistake: mendum (scripturae) (Fam. 6. 7. 1)
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(ambiguous) a clerical error, copyist's mistake: mendum (scripturae) (Fam. 6. 7. 1)
- scriptura in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- scriptura in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Old Provençal
Noun
scriptura f (oblique plural scripturas, nominative singular scriptura, nominative plural scripturas)
- Alternative form of escriptura