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Definition: SCRIPTORIUM |
SCRIPTORIUMNoun1. In an abbey or monastery, the room set apart for writing or copying manuscripts; in general, a room devoted to writing. |
Etymology: Scriptorium \Scrip*to"ri*um\, noun; plural Scriptoria. [from Late Latin expression See Scriptory.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Scriptorium An apartment in every abbey where writers transcribed service-books for the choir and books for the library. (Warton.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
See also: Manuscript, Codex, Johann Gutenberg
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Scriptorium."
| Synonym by domain: scriptoria (publishing & graphic arts). |
Crosswords: SCRIPTORIUM |
| English words defined with "SCRIPTORIUM": Scriptoria. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "SCRIPTORIUM" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SCRIPTORIUM" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "SCRIPTORIUM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | skrivestue. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | scriptorium. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | اطاق کتابت , دفترخانه (Bureau), دستخطی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | scriptorium. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | scriptorium. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Scriptorium, schreibstube. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σκριπτόριο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | scriptorium. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | thie screeuee, shamyr screeuee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iptoriumscray scriptorium. (various references) scriptorium, escritorio (a desk, bureau, desk, desk job, escritoire, office desk, writing desk, writing table, writing-desk). (various references) skriptorium. (various references) manastır yazıhanesi. (various references) приміщення для переписування рукописів. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SCRIPTORIUM": scriptoriums. (additional references) | |
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"SCRIPTORIUM" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scriptor, scriptorius. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "SCRIPTORIUM" (pronounced 'Scrip*to"ri*um'): Abandum, Absinthium, Acetabulum, Aconitum, Acrodactylum, Acropodium, Acrotarsium, Acroterium, Actinium, Addendum, Adiantum, Adytum, AEcidium, Agendum, Ageratum, Alabastrum, Alarum, Album, Alburnum, Alcyonium, Allium, Allodium, Alluvium, Aluminium, Aluminum, Ambulacrum, Amentum, Ammonium, Amoebaeum, Amomum, Amphibium, Anacardium, Androecium, Animalculum, Antependium, Antheridium, Anthodium, Antibrachium, Anticlinorium, Antrum, Apodyterium, Apothecium, Aquarium, Arachnidium, Arboretum, Arcanum, Archegonium, Archipterygium, Argentalium, arum, Ascidiarium, Ascidium, Aspersorium, Asylum, Auchenium, Auditorium, Aurum, Bacterium, Ballium, barium, Basidium, Basigynium, Basipterygium, Bdellium, Begum, Bivium, Brachium, Brontotherium, Brontozoum, Bryozoum, Bucranium, Bungarum, Cadmium, Caecum, Caesium, Caladium, Calamistrum, Calcaneum, Calcium, Calistheneum, Callosum, Cambium, Candelabrum, Capitulum, Carborundum, Caseum, Castoreum, Celtium, Centrum, Cephalanthium, Cerebellum, Cerebrum, Cerium, Ceruleum, Cheiropterygium, Cheirotherium, Chloralum, Chromium, Chrysanthemum, Ciborium, Cingulum, Claustrum, Clinanthium, Clum, Coagulum, Coccobacterium, Coelum, Coenoecium, Colchicum, Colleterium, Collodium, Collum, Collyrium, Colostrum, Columbarium, Columbium, Cometarium, Compendium, Compluvium, Conidium, Conium, Conjugium, Contagium, Conundrum, Corallum, Corniculum, Coronium, Corrigendum, Corundum, Cranium, Credendum, Cribellum, Crincum, Crincum-crancum, Crinum, Crissum, Crotalum, cuprum, Curriculum, Cymatium, Cymbium, Cynarrhodium, Cypripedium, damnum, Datum, Davyum, Decennium, Decipium, Decorum, Degum, Deinotherium, Deliquium, Delirium, Deltidium, Dentalium, Depositum, Desideratum, Diacodium, Dianium, Dictum, Didymium, Digitorium, Diluvium, Diverticulum, Doliolum, Dolium, Dorsum, Dromatherium, Duodenum, dysprosium, Eardrum, Ecballium, Ecthoreum, Ectobronchium, Ectropium, Effluvium, Ekaluminium, Elaterium, Elysium, Emporium, Encomium, Endocardium, Endometrium, Endomysium, Endoneurium, Endophloeum, Endosteum, Endothecium, Endothelium, Enrheum, Entobronchium, Entropium, Ephippium, Epicardium, Epicedium, Epicleidium, Epicranium, Epigastrium, Epineurium, Epiphyllum, Epipodium, Episternum, Epithalamium, Epithelium, Equilibrium, Equisetum, Erratum, Erythronium, Eulogium, Eupatorium, Euphonium, Euphorbium, europium, Excubitorium, Exogium, Exordium, Exothecium, Factotum, Factum, Fee-faw-fum, Figgum, Flabellum, flagellum, folium, forum, Fraenulum, Fretum, Frigidarium, frustum, fulcrum, fum, Fumatorium, Furculum, Garum, Gelsemium, Geranium, Germarium, Gigerium, Glabellum, Glaum, Glochidium, Glucinum, Gnaphalium, Gnathidium, Gonoblastidium, Gossypium, Grum, Guiacum, Gymnasium, gynoecium, Gypsum, Habendum, Hamatum, harmonium, harum-scarum, Haum, Haustellum, haustorium, Helichrysum, Hemicerebrum, Herbarium, Hesperidium, Hibernaculum, hilum, holmium, hoodlum, hordeolum, Hormogonium, Hospitium, Hummum, hydrargyrum, Hydroperitoneum, Hydrophyllium, hymenium, Hypanthium, Hypericum, Hypnum, hypochondrium, Hypocleidium, Hypodactylum, Hypogastrium, Hypogeum, Hypoptilum, Ichthyopterygium, Illicium, Ilmenium, Imperium, Impluvium, Incertum, Incunabulum, indecorum, indium, indusium, infundibulum, Interambulacrum, Intercentrum, Interoperculum, INTERREGNUM, Intervallum, Involucellum, Ionidium, iridium, jejunum, jorum, Jugulum, Jugum, Juramentum, Kalium, kettledrum, Korrigum, Labarum, Labellum, labium, Labrum, Laburnum, Lactucarium, ladanum, lanthanum, Larum, Latibulum, laudanum, Lavoesium, linoleum, Linum, Lithargyrum, lithium, Lixivium, Lum, lustrum, lutecium, lyceum, Lycopodium, Lygodium, Macrosporangium, Madisterium, magnesium, magnum, Manganesium, Manganium, manubrium, Marrubium, mausoleum, Meconidium, meconium, meerschaum, memorandum, Menstruum, mentum, Mercurammonium, Mesembryanthemum, Mesoarium, Mesobronchium, Mesocaecum, Mesogastrium, Mesometrium, Mesonotum, Mesophloeum, Mesophyllum, Mesopodium, Mesopterygium, Mesorchium, Mesorectum, Mesoscutum, Mesosternum, mesothelium, Mesothorium, mesovarium, Mesymnicum, Metalammonium, Metanotum, Metapodium, Metapterygium, Meum, Microsporangium, millennium, minimum, minium, Minum, modicum, molluscum, molybdenum, momentum, Monopodium, moratorium, Multum, museum, mutandum, Mycelium, Myocardium, Nasturtium, Natatorium, Natrium, Nemathecium, Nephridium, neptunium, Neuropodium, Nitroleum, norium, Norwegium, Nostrum. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-i-m-o-p-r-r-s-t-u" | |
-3 letters: corrupts, protiums, pruritic, puristic, scrimpit, trisomic. | |
-4 letters: cirrous, citrous, corrupt, impious, imports, irrupts, miotics, protium, rostrum, scrotum, somitic, soritic, stirrup, tourism, trismic, tropics, tropism, utopism. | |
-5 letters: cirrus, citrus, coitus, compts, corium, corpus, courts, crimps, croups, crumps, cruors, curios, cursor, custom, import, impost, irrupt, micros, miotic, miscut, morris, mucors, mucros, opiums, optics, ostium, picots, porism, primos, primus, priors, prosit, purism, purist, rictus, rimous, ripost, rumors, rustic, scrimp, script, sitcom, spirit, sprout, stupor, suitor, surimi, topics, tripos, tromps, tropic, truism, trumps, tumors, upmost, upstir. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-i-m-o-p-r-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: scriptoriums. | |
+4 letters: circumscription. | |
+5 letters: circumscriptions, superromanticism, ultramicroscopic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 43 52 49 50 54 4F 52 49 55 4D |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. .-. .. .--. - --- .-. .. ..- -- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01000011 01010010 01001001 01010000 01010100 01001111 01010010 01001001 01010101 01001101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S C R I P T O R I U M |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0043 0052 0049 0050 0054 004F 0052 0049 0055 004D |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5337524350544952435547 |
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