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scrivano

scrivano noun: a scribe or clerk.

Noun

scrivano (plural scrivanos or scrivanoes)

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

Forms of scrivano

pluralscrivanos
pluralscrivanoes

Origin of scrivano

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

Questions about scrivano

What does scrivano mean?
Scrivano means a scribe or clerk.
What part of speech is scrivano?
Scrivano is a noun.
What is the plural of scrivano?
The plural of scrivano is scrivanos.

Words near scrivano in the dictionary

  1. scritchings
  2. scritchy
  3. scritoire
  4. scritoires
  5. scrivan
  6. scrivano
  7. scrivanoes
  8. scrivanos
  9. scrivans
  10. scrive
  11. scrived

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