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manuscript en · ADJ · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /ˈmæn.jəˌskɹɪpt/
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Etymology

1597, from Medieval Latin manūscrīptus, a calque of Germanic origin, equivalent to Latin manū (ablative of manus (“hand”)) + Latin scrīptus (past participle of scribere (“to write”)). Not found in Classical Latin.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically reproduced.

Translations (36)

fa مخطوطه (handwritten, or by extension typewritten) · ca manuscrit (handwritten, or by extension typewritten) · pl rękopis (handwritten, or by extension typewritten) · fa دستنوشته (handwritten, or by extension typewritten) · ru рукопи́сный (handwritten, or by extension typewritten) · nl geschreven (handwritten, or by extension typewritten) · fr manuscrit (handwritten, or by extension typewritten) · pl odręczny (handwritten, or by extension typewritten) · it manoscritto (handwritten, or by extension typewritten) · sh rukopisni (handwritten, or by extension typewritten) · km អក្សរដៃ (handwritten, or by extension typewritten) · es manuscrito (handwritten, or by extension typewritten) · fi käsin kirjoitettu (handwritten, or by extension typewritten) · de Handschrift (handwritten, or by extension typewritten) · el χειρόγραφο (handwritten, or by extension typewritten) · hi हस्तलिपि (handwritten, or by extension typewritten) · de Manuskript (handwritten, or by extension typewritten) · bg ръкопи́сен (handwritten, or by extension typewritten) · pt manuscrito (handwritten, or by extension typewritten) · nl handgeschreven (handwritten, or by extension typewritten) · ms manuskrip (handwritten, or by extension typewritten) · az əlyazma (handwritten, or by extension typewritten) · sh рукописни (handwritten, or by extension typewritten) · gl manuscrito (handwritten, or by extension typewritten) · fa دستنویس (handwritten, or by extension typewritten) · ba ҡулдан яҙылған (handwritten, or by extension typewritten) · sh rukom pisani (handwritten, or by extension typewritten) · ar مَخْطُوطَة (handwritten, or by extension typewritten) · ja 手書きの (handwritten, or by extension typewritten) · sh руком писани (handwritten, or by extension typewritten) · wa scrît al mwin (handwritten, or by extension typewritten) · fa نسخه خطی (handwritten, or by extension typewritten) · ka ხელნაწერი (handwritten, or by extension typewritten) · cmn 手寫的 /手写的 (handwritten, or by extension typewritten) · ba ҡулъяҙма (handwritten, or by extension typewritten) · ka მანუსკრიპტი (handwritten, or by extension typewritten)

manuscript en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /ˈmæn.jəˌskɹɪpt/
• (US) audio

Etymology

From Medieval Latin manūscrīptum (“writing by hand”), a calque of Germanic origin: compare Middle Low German hantschrift (“manuscript, document”), Middle Dutch hantscrift (“manuscript”) (c. 1451), Old High German hantgiskrīb (“handwriting, document, manuscript”), Middle High German hantschrift, hantgeschrift (“manuscript”) (c. 1450), Old English handġewrit (“what is written by hand, deed, contract, manuscript”) (before 1150), Old Norse handrit (“manuscript”) (before 1300). Not found in Classical Latin.

Meanings

1. A book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced.
   • In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
   • The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy. 2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC:
   • The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read. 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:
   • We read in history, that the beauty of an ancient manuscript tempted King Alfred, when a boy at his mother's knee, to learn the letters of the Saxon tongue. 1845, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Anglo-Saxon Language and Poetry”, in The Poets and Poetry of Europe. […], Philadelphia, Pa.: Carey and Hart, […], →OCLC, page 1, column 1:
2. A single, original copy of a book, article, composition etc, written by hand or even printed, submitted as original for (copy-editing and) reproductive publication.

Forms

Deriveds

manuscriptal · manuscript paper · manuscription · palm-leaf manuscript

Relateds

typescript · script

Synonyms

autograph · handwrit · handwriting

Translations (129)

my စာမူ (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · gd làmh-sgrìobhainn (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · kk қолжазба (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · ru ру́копись (book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication) · ba ҡулъяҙма (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · ar مَخْطُوط (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · hy ձեռագիր (book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication) · eo manskribaĵo (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · lt rankraštis (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · ca manuscrit (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · oc manuscrich (book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication) · hi पांडुलिपि (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · el χειρόγραφο (book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication) · ar مَخْطُوطَة (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · az əlyazma (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · he כְּתַב יָד (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · km ក្រាំង (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · ja 草稿 (book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication) · uk руко́пис (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · nl manuscript (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · ru ру́копись (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · kk көшірме (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · es manuscrito (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · cmn 手稿 (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · tt кулъязма (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · pl rękopis (book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication) · da manuskript (book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication) · vi thủ bản (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · lo ຫນັງສືໃບລານ (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · tg дастнавис (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · nl kopij (book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication) · ja 写本 (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · eo manuskripto (book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication) · be манускры́пт (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · ru манускри́пт (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · nl handschrift (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · sl rokopis (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · pl maszynopis (book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication) · bn পাণ্ডুলিপি (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · lv manuskripts (book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication) · eo manuskripto (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · cmn 原稿 (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · ba ҡулъяҙма (book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication) · af manuskrip (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · ja マニュスクリプト (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · km សាត្រាស្លឹករឹត (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · oc manuscrit (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · hy բնագիր (book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication) · sh rȕkopīs (book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication) · tk golýazma (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · ro manuscris (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · izh käsikirjutos (book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication) · no manuskript (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · ko 사본 (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · ug قوليازما (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · cmn 手抄本 (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · nl manuscript (book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication) · oc manuscrich (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · et käsikiri (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · ja 手書き原稿 (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · sh rȕkopīs (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · cs rukopis (book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication) · fr manuscrit (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · lv manuskripts (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · sk rukopis (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · hy մատյան (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · el χειρόγραφο (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · fi käsikirjoitus (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · az əlyazı (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · ang handgewrit (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · lo ໜັງສືໃບລານ (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · da manuskript (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · hu kézirat (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · hu kézirat (book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication) · pt manuscrito (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · sq dorëshkrim (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · ms naskhah (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · pl rękopis (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · bg ръкопи́с (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · ja 手写本 (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · lv rokraksts (book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication) · mn ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠮᠡᠯ (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · wa papîscrît (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · bg ръкопис (book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication) · ja 稿 (book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication) · es manuscrito (book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication) · it manoscritto (book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication) · gd làmh-sgrìobhainn (book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication) · be ру́капіс (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · sv manuskript (book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication) · sv handskrift (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · lo ຕົ້ນສະບັບ (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · lv rokraksts (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · sh ру̏копӣс (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · cmn 草稿 (book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication) · ja 稿本 (book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication) · fr manuscrit (book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication) · mn бичмэл (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · da håndskrift (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · no manuskript (book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication) · lt manuskriptas (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · hy ձեռագիր (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · tr yazma (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · ga lámhscríbhinn (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · km សាស្ត្រា (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · pl manuskrypt (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · uk манускри́пт (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · ka ხელნაწერი (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · it manoscritto (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · sh рукопис (book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication) · mk ракопис (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · pt manuscrito (book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication) · ru манускри́пт (book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication) · th ต้นฉบับ (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · ca manuscrit (book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication) · ca original (book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication) · id naskah (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · ky кол жазма (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · uz qoʻlyozma (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · fa نسخه خطی (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · cmn 原稿 (book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication) · de Handschrift (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · cs rukopis (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · ja 記録 (book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication) · ja 原稿 (book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication) · km គម្ពីរ (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · sv manuskript (book, composition or any other document, written by hand) · fi käsikirjoitus (book, article etc, submitted for reproductive publication) · fa دستنوشته (book, composition or any other document, written by hand)