scribe
noun
[ skrʌɪb ]
• a person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented.
Similar:
clerk,
secretary,
copyist,
transcriber,
amanuensis,
recorder,
record keeper,
mallam,
pen-pusher,
pencil pusher,
penman,
scrivener,
writer,
• a Jewish recordkeeper or, later, a professional theologian and jurist.
• a pointed instrument used for making marks on wood, bricks, etc., to guide a saw or in signwriting.
scribe
verb
• write.
• "he scribed a note that he passed to Dan"
• mark with a pointed instrument.
• "mark the position of the lock body on the door edge, then scribe a centre mark"
Origin:
Middle English (in scribe (sense 2 of the noun)): from Latin scriba, from scribere ‘write’. The verb was first used in the sense ‘write down’; in sense 2 it is perhaps partly a shortening of describe.
