escribano

Borrowed from Spanish escribano. Doublet of scrivener and scrivano.

escribano (plural escribanos)

1. A clerk; a scrivener.
   • 1843, George Borrow, The Bible in Spain

     They robbed a gentleman and ill-treated him, but his brother, who was an escribano, was soon upon their trail, and had them arrested; but he wanted some one to identify them, and it chanced that they had stopped to drink water at my stall […]

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From Old Spanish escriván, from Vulgar Latin *scrība, *scrībānem, from alteration of declension from Latin scrība (“writer, scribe”). Doublet of escriba, a borrowing.

escribano m (plural escribanos, feminine escribana, feminine plural escribanas)

1. scrivener
2. court clerk, notary
3. bunting (bird)

• escriba
• escribir
• escritor