a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of printing.
a public clerk or writer, usually one having official status.
Also called sopher, sofer. Judaism. one of the group of Palestinian scholars and teachers of Jewish law and tradition, active from the 5th century b.c. to the 1st century a.d., who transcribed, edited, and interpreted the Bible.
a writer or author, especially a journalist.
verb (used without object),scribed,scrib·ing.
to act as a scribe; write.
verb (used with object),scribed,scrib·ing.
to write down.
Origin of scribe
1
1350–1400;Middle English < Latinscrība clerk, derivative of scrībere to write
Related formsscrib·al, adjectiveun·scrib·al, adjective
c.1200, "professional interpreter of the Jewish Law" (late 11c. as a surname), from Church Latin scriba "teacher of Jewish law," used in Vulgate to render Greek grammateus (corresponding to Hebrew sopher "writer, scholar"), special use of Latin scriba "keeper of accounts, secretary, writer," from past participle stem of scribere "to write;" see script (n.). Sense "one who writes, official or public writer" in English is from late 14c.
scribe
v.
"to write," mid-15c., from Latin scribere "to write" (see script (n.)).
