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"Mark with a point"

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6 lettersPronunciation /skɹaɪb/Part of speech verb, nounSorted bceirsStarts with SEnds with E2 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking

Word origin

From Middle English scribe, from Old French scribe (“scribe”), from Late Latin usage of scrība (“secretary”) (used in the Vulgate Bible translation to render Ancient Greek γραμματεύς (grammateús, “scribe, secretary”), which had been used in its turn to render the Hebrew סופר (“writer, scholar”)) from scrībere (“to write, draw, draw up, draft (a paper), enlist, enroll, levy; orig. to scratch”), probably akin to scrobs (“a ditch, trench, grave”).

Used in a sentence

  • [T]he pleasure of writing on wax with a stylus is exemplified by the fine, flowing hand of a Roman scribe who made out the birth certificate of Herennia Gemella, born March 128 AD.
  • There—at Ioue wexed wroth, and in his ſpright / Did inly grudge, yet did it well conceale; / And bade Dan Phœbus Scribe her Appellation ſeale.
  • he scribed his name on the mould, and wrote it on the two pieces of pasteboard

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Mark with a point6 letters
02Old manuscript copyist6 letters

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