noun
- a professional penman who copied manuscripts before the invention of printing
- a writer or author
- a person learned in the Jewish law who makes handwritten copies of the Torah
- a person employed by the general public to write letters, etc.
- a pointed instrument for scoring stone, brick, wood, etc. to show where it is to be cut
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
- to score (wood, bricks, etc.) with a scribe
- to mark (a line) with a scribe