scrivan

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noun

A clerk or writer.

OriginItalian scrivano →
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Meanings

nounscrivan (plural scrivans)

plural scrivans

  1. obsoleteA clerk or writer.

    They told me their husbands were scrivans to the sultan, and that on their arrival in Cairo they should go to the house of the Khalil Bey till they proceeded to Alexandria; […]

    1822, Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations, in Egypt and Nubia And of a Journey to the Coast of the Red Sea, in Search of the Ancient Berenice; and Another to the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon, volume 2, page 314

Origin

  1. Italianscrivano
  2. Englishscrivan

Borrowed from Italian scrivano. Doublet of scrivano, scrivener, and escribano.

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APA

scrivan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scrivan

MLA

“scrivan.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scrivan. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “scrivan,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scrivan.

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