The definition of a scribe is a person who copies manuscripts or a pointed instrument used for marking where something should be cut.
(noun)See scribe in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
Origin: ME < L scriba, public writer, scribe, in LL(Ec), doctor of the Jewish law < scribere, to write < IE *skeribh- < base *(s)ker-, to cut, incise > shear
transitive verb scribed, scribing
intransitive verb
See scribe in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
Origin:
Origin: Middle English
Origin: , from Old French
Origin: , from Late Latin scrība
Origin: , from Latin, keeper of accounts, secretary
Origin: , from scrībere, to write; see skrībh- in Indo-European roots
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