scriptus

Latin

Alternative forms

• scribtus (non-assimilated)

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of scrībō (“to write”).

Participle

scrīptus (feminine scrīpta, neuter scrīptum); first/second-declension participle

1. written, having been written.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	scrīptus	scrīpta	scrīptum		scrīptī	scrīptae	scrīpta
Genitive	scrīptī	scrīptae	scrīptī		scrīptōrum	scrīptārum	scrīptōrum
Dative	scrīptō		scrīptō		scrīptīs
Accusative	scrīptum	scrīptam	scrīptum		scrīptōs	scrīptās	scrīpta
Ablative	scrīptō	scrīptā	scrīptō		scrīptīs
Vocative	scrīpte	scrīpta	scrīptum		scrīptī	scrīptae	scrīpta

Related terms

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

 

Descendants

• Aromanian: scriptu
• Asturian: escritu
• Catalan: escrit
• French: écrit
• Friulian: scrit
• Galician: escrito
• Istriot: screîto
• Italian: scritto
• Ladin: scrit
• Occitan: escrich, escrit
• Portuguese: escrito
• Romanian: script, scris
• Sardinian: iscritu, scritu
• Sicilian: scrittu
• Spanish: escrito
• Venetian: scrito

References

• “scriptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “scriptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• scriptus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a carefully written book: liber accurate, diligenter scriptus
    
  • the terms, contents of the letter are as follows: litterae in hanc sententiam or his verbis scriptae sunt
    
  • (ambiguous) from memory; by heart: ex memoria (opp. de scripto)
    
  • (ambiguous) we read in history: apud rerum scriptores scriptum videmus, scriptum est
    
  • (ambiguous) to read a speech: de scripto orationem habere, dicere (opp. sine scripto, ex memoria)
    
  • (ambiguous) to hold by the letter (of the law): verba ac litteras or scriptum (legis) sequi (opp. sententia the spirit)
    
  • (ambiguous) we read in Plato: apud Platonem scriptum videmus, scriptum est or simply est
    
  • (ambiguous) in Plato's 'Phaedo' we read: in Platonis Phaedone scriptum est
    
  • (ambiguous) a man's soul breathes through his writings: alicuius mens in scriptis spirat
    
  • (ambiguous) full of orthographical errors: mendose scriptum
    
  • (ambiguous) a letter to Atticus: epistula ad Atticum data, scripta, missa or quae ad A. scripta est
    
  • (ambiguous) the law says..: in lege scriptum est, or simply est