escribano

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish escribano. Doublet of scrivener and scrivano.

Noun

escribano (plural escribanos)

  1. A clerk; a scrivener.
    • 1843, George Borrow, The Bible in Spain
      They robbed a gentleman and ill-treated him, but his brother, who was an escribano, was soon upon their trail, and had them arrested; but he wanted some one to identify them, and it chanced that they had stopped to drink water at my stall []

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Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish escriván, from Vulgar Latin *scrība, *scrībānem, from alteration of declension from Latin scrība (writer, scribe). Doublet of escriba, a borrowing.

Noun

escribano m (plural escribanos, feminine escribana, feminine plural escribanas)

  1. scrivener
  2. court clerk, notary
  3. bunting (bird)
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