English → Latin
“writer” in Latin
scrībōto writescrībawriter, scribe, secretary, clerkscrīptorwriter, author; scribecōnscrībōto enroll or enlist, levy (write together in a list); to draw up, compose, writeauctorseller, vendor; author, originator; sponsor, advocatenitidusshining, polished, glittering; handsome, beautiful, good-looking; healthy-looking, well conditionedexarōto plough or dig up; till, cultivate, plough; to produce by tillage, raise; to write, note or set down something on tabl
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
writer
One who writes, scribens: qui scribit: qui litteras scribit. A good writer, qui eleganti or nitida, manu litteras scribit (after Plaut., Pseud., 1, 1, 28). the writer of a letter, qui litteras, epistolam scripsit, exaravit (after Cic.).
One whose profession or office it is to write, scriba; also, (post-Augustan), a manu servus; ab epistolis; amanuensis (secretary, amanuensis); librarius (a transcriber of books).
Author of a book, scriptor: qui librum scripsit or conscripsit (the actual writer of it): auctor (only so far as he is an authority for using a particular style, for a particular statement, etc.; hence not without a genitive, unless this can easily be supplied by the context †): Roman writers, Romani scriptores (who have written in Latin); rerum Romanarum auctores (Latin historians, who are our authorities for Roman history); Latinitatis auctores (writers of classical Latinity).
Writers (as a class), without genitive, qui libros scribunt or conscribunt.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for writer?
- The usual Latin words for “writer” are scrībō, scrība, scrīptor; also cōnscrībō, auctor, nitidus. 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.