scrivano

Borrowed from Italian scrivano. Doublet of scrivan, scrivener, and escribano.

scrivano (plural scrivanos or scrivanoes)

1. (archaic) A scribe or clerk.
   • 1813, Robert Kerr, A General History of Voyages and Travels to the End of the 18th Century:

     We dined that day with the scrivano, and hired a house of Hassan Aga, one of our pledges, at seventy dollars the monsoon, or yearly rent, it being all the same.

• corvinas

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *scrībānem (with later change of declension), accusative of Latin *scrība, from Latin scrība (“writer, scribe”), with altered declension. Compare Occitan escrivan, French écrivain, Spanish escribano. Doublet of scriba.

• IPA^(key): /skriˈva.no/^[1][2]
• Homophone: Scrivano
• Rhymes: -ano
• Hyphenation: scri‧và‧no

scrivano m (plural scrivani, feminine scrivana)

1. scribe
2. clerk

• scrivano in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• scrivano in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• (apocopic) scrivan

• IPA^(key): /ˈskri.va.no/^[2]
• Rhymes: -ivano
• Hyphenation: scrì‧va‧no

scrivano

1. inflection of scrivere:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

• scarnivo, scornavi