scrivener
Meanings
noun
- A professional writer; one whose occupation is to draw contracts or prepare writings.
- One whose business is to place money at interest; a broker.
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- A surname.
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From Middle English scryvener, alteration of scryveyn, from Anglo-Norman scrivein (“professional penman, copyist”), from Old French escrivain, from Vulgar Latin *scriba, *scribanem, from Latin scriba, from scrībō (“to write”).
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