How to spell scribe

Scribe is spelled S-C-R-I-B-E.

hear itscribe/skr'aɪb/nounHidden vowels

What it means: A person who writes down documents and manuscripts.

In a sentence: The scribe wrote a story in the big book.

Same family: scribble, describe, description, inscribe, manuscript. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Scribe comes from the Latin word *scriba*, meaning ‘writer’ or ‘secretary,’ which itself is from *scribere*, ‘to write.’ The same ancient root also gave us words like 'describe,' 'subscribe,' and 'manuscript.'

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