scriptura

See also: scripturã, and scriptură

Interlingua

Noun

scriptura (plural scripturas)

1. writing
2. scripture

Latin

Pronunciation

• scrīptūra: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /skriːpˈtuː.ra/, [s̠kriːpˈt̪uːrä]
• scrīptūra: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /skripˈtu.ra/, [skripˈt̪uːrä]
• scrīptūrā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /skriːpˈtuː.raː/, [s̠kriːpˈt̪uːräː]
• scrīptūrā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /skripˈtu.ra/, [skripˈt̪uːrä]

Etymology 1

From scrībō (“I write”) +‎ -tūra.

Noun

scrīptūra f (genitive scrīptūrae); first declension

1. a writing, something written
2. a composition (act of writing)
3. (Ecclesiastical Latin) a passage of scripture

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	scrīptūra	scrīptūrae
genitive	scrīptūrae	scrīptūrārum
dative	scrīptūrae	scrīptūrīs
accusative	scrīptūram	scrīptūrās
ablative	scrīptūrā	scrīptūrīs
vocative	scrīptūra	scrīptūrae

Derived terms

• scrīptūrārius

Related terms

• scrība
• scrībātus
• scrībō
• scrīnium
• scrīptilis
• scrīptiō
• scrīptiōnālis
• scrīptitō
• scrīptiuncula
• scrīptor
• scrīptōrium
• scrīptōrius
• scrīptula
• scrīptum
• scrīptūriō
• scrīptus

 

Descendants

Descendants

• Aromanian: scripturã
• Asturian: escritura
• Catalan: escriptura
• English: scripture
• French: écriture
• Friulian: scriture
• Galician: escritura
• Italian: scrittura
• Ladino: eskritura
• Norman: êcrituthe
• Occitan: escritura
• Portuguese: escritura
• Romanian: scriptură, scriitură
• Romansch: scrittira, scrittüra
• Sardinian: iscritura, scridura
• Sicilian: scrittura
• Spanish: escritura
• Venetan: scritura
• → Proto-Brythonic: *ɨskrɨθʉr
  • Middle Welsh: ysgrythur
    • Welsh: ysgrythur

Etymology 2

Participle

scrīptūra

1. inflection of scrīptūrus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

scrīptūrā

1. ablative feminine singular of scrīptūrus

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• scriptura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (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 Occitan

Noun

scriptura f (oblique plural scripturas, nominative singular scriptura, nominative plural scripturas)

1. Alternative form of escriptura