English → Latin
“scribe” in Latin
scrībawriter, scribe, secretary, clerkāctuāriusscribe, amanuensis, shorthand writer, record keeper, bookkeeper, administratorlibrāriusof or pertaining to booksnotāriusa clerk, secretary; a notary
The English word scribe itself goes back to Latin scrībō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
scribe
scriba: actuarius (in Silver Age, was a kind of short-hand writer who took notes of the speeches delivered in a court, Suet., Caes., 55): a manu (sc. servus, a private secretary; an amanuensis: in time of emperors, amanuensis): librarius (a writer [not author] of books; also employed for copying, etc.; hence private secretary, scribe, etc.): ab epistolis (sc. servus, the slave who wrote from his master’s dictation): notarius (a short-hand writer; post- Augustan). To be anybody’s scribe, a manu alicui esse; ab epistolis alicui esse
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for scribe?
- The usual Latin words for “scribe” are scrība, āctuārius, librārius; also notārius. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.