scriptorium
English
Etymology
From Medieval LatinCategory:English terms borrowed from Medieval Latin#SCRIPTORIUMCategory:English terms derived from Medieval Latin#SCRIPTORIUM scrīptōrium, from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#SCRIPTORIUM scrīptōrius (“pertaining to writing”). Doublet of escritoireCategory:English doublets#SCRIPTORIUM.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /skɹɪpˈtɔː.ɹɪəm/Category:English 3-syllable words#SCRIPTORIUMCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#SCRIPTORIUM
- (General American) IPA(key): /skɹɪpˈtɔɹ.i.əm/Category:English 4-syllable words#SCRIPTORIUMCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#SCRIPTORIUM
- Hyphenation: scrip‧to‧ri‧um
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#SCRIPTORIUMAudio (US): (file)
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#SCRIPTORIUMAudio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
scriptorium (plural scriptoria or scriptoriums)Category:English lemmas#SCRIPTORIUMCategory:English nouns#SCRIPTORIUMCategory:English countable nouns#SCRIPTORIUMCategory:English nouns with irregular plurals#SCRIPTORIUMCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SCRIPTORIUMCategory:Pages with entries#SCRIPTORIUMCategory:Pages with 4 entries#SCRIPTORIUM
- (countableCategory:English countable nouns#SCRIPTORIUM) A room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts and records, especially such a room in a monastery.
- 1912, G[ilbert] Roger Hudleston, “Scriptorium”, in Charles G[eorge] Herbermann, Edward A[loysius] Pace, Condé B[enoist] Pallen, Thomas J[oseph] Shahan, John J[oseph] Wynne, editors, The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church, volume XIII (Revelation–Simon Stock), New York, N.Y.: Robert Appleton Company, →OCLC, page 635, column 1:
- The rules of the scriptorium varied in different monasteries, but artificial light was forbidden for fear of injury to the manuscripts, and silence was always enforced.Category:English terms with quotations#SCRIPTORIUM
- 1999, Seamus Heaney, “Introduction”, in Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page xxii:
- Very soon, however, I hesitated. It was labour-intensive work, scriptorium-slow.Category:English terms with quotations#SCRIPTORIUM
- 2008, James Ronald Royse, chapter 7, in Scribal Habits in Early Greek New Testament Papyri, page 499:
- Nevertheless, Aland criticized Martin's suggestion that the codex was the product of the scriptorium attached to a monastery,536 on the grounds that there is no evidence for the existence of monasteries in the year 200, or for the existence of scriptoria at all connected with the Church at that early date.Category:English terms with quotations#SCRIPTORIUM
- 2009, Fred S. Kleiner, Gardner's Art Through the Ages: The Western Perspective, 13th edition, volume 1, page 289:
- Among the earliest Hiberno-Saxon illuminated manuscripts is the Book of Durrow, a Gospel book that may have been written and decorated in the monastic scriptorium at Iona, although its provenance is not documented.Category:English terms with quotations#SCRIPTORIUM
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Translations
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from LatinCategory:Dutch terms borrowed from Latin#SCRIPTORIUMCategory:Dutch terms derived from Latin#SCRIPTORIUM scrīptōrium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌskrɪpˈtoː.ri.ʏm/Category:Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation#SCRIPTORIUM
Category:Dutch terms with audio pronunciation#SCRIPTORIUMAudio: (file) - Hyphenation: scrip‧to‧ri‧um
- Rhymes: -oːriʏmCategory:Rhymes:Dutch/oːriʏm#SCRIPTORIUM
Noun
scriptorium n (plural scriptoria, no diminutive)Category:Dutch lemmas#SCRIPTORIUMCategory:Dutch nouns#SCRIPTORIUMCategory:Dutch nouns with Latin plurals#SCRIPTORIUMCategory:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#SCRIPTORIUMCategory:Dutch neuter nouns#SCRIPTORIUMCategory:Pages with entries#SCRIPTORIUMCategory:Pages with 4 entries#SCRIPTORIUM
- scriptorium (place where manuscripts are produced)
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval LatinCategory:French terms borrowed from Medieval Latin#SCRIPTORIUMCategory:French terms derived from Medieval Latin#SCRIPTORIUM scrīptōrium. Doublet of écritoireCategory:French doublets#SCRIPTORIUM.
Pronunciation
Noun
scriptorium m (plural scriptoria)Category:French lemmas#SCRIPTORIUMCategory:French nouns#SCRIPTORIUMCategory:French countable nouns#SCRIPTORIUMCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#SCRIPTORIUMCategory:French masculine nouns#SCRIPTORIUMCategory:Pages with entries#SCRIPTORIUMCategory:Pages with 4 entries#SCRIPTORIUM
Further reading
- “scriptorium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Latin
Etymology
From scrīptor (“writer, author”) + -iumCategory:Latin terms suffixed with -ium#SCRIPTORIUM or equivalently, scrībō (“to write”) + -tōrium (suffix forming nouns denoting places)Category:Latin terms suffixed with -torium#SCRIPTORIUM.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [skriːpˈtoː.ri.ũː]Category:Latin 4-syllable words#SCRIPTORIUMCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#SCRIPTORIUM
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [skripˈtɔː.ri.um]Category:Latin 4-syllable words#SCRIPTORIUMCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#SCRIPTORIUM
Noun
scrīptōrium n (genitive scrīptōriī or scrīptōrī)Category:Latin lemmas#SCRIPTORIUMCategory:Latin nouns#SCRIPTORIUMCategory:Latin second declension nouns#SCRIPTORIUMCategory:Latin neuter nouns in the second declension#SCRIPTORIUMCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#SCRIPTORIUMCategory:Latin neuter nouns#SCRIPTORIUMCategory:Pages with entries#SCRIPTORIUMCategory:Pages with 4 entries#SCRIPTORIUM; second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms
Descendants
- → Catalan: escriptori
- → Italian: scrittorio
- → Portuguese: escritório
- → Romanian: scriptoriu
- → Spanish: escritorio
Adjective
scrīptōriumCategory:Latin non-lemma forms#SCRIPTORIUMCategory:Latin adjective forms#SCRIPTORIUMCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#SCRIPTORIUMCategory:Pages with entries#SCRIPTORIUMCategory:Pages with 4 entries#SCRIPTORIUM
- inflection of scrīptōrius:
References
- “scriptorium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- "scriptorium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)