- scribe (v.)
- "to write," mid-15c., from Latin scribere "to write" (see script).
- scribe (n.)
- c.1200, "professional interpreter of the Jewish Law" (late 11c. as a surname), from Late Latin scriba "teacher of Jewish law," used in Vulgate to render Greek grammateus, corresponding to Hebrew sopher "writer, scholar." In secular Latin, scriba meant "keeper of accounts, secretary" (from scribere "to write;" see script). It recovered this sense in English from late 14c.