Scripture

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• General-American: /ˈskɹɪpt͡ʃɚ/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈskɹɪptʃə/
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• CMU ARPABET: S K R IH1 P CH ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Latin scrīptūra (“a writing, scripture”), from scrīptum, the supine of scrībō (“to write”).

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-? Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreybh- Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybheti Proto-Italic *skreiβō Latin scrībō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh2? Latin -tūra Latin scrīptūrader. Middle English scripture English scripture From Middle English scripture, from Latin scrīptūra (“a writing, scripture”), from scrīptum, the supine of scrībō (“to write”). By surface analysis, script + -ure.

55 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: свето писание (sveto pisanie) — religious text
• Finnish: pyhä kirja — religious text
• Finnish: Sana — religious text
• German: Heilige Schrift — religious text
• Japanese: 聖句 (seiku) — religious text
• Lithuanian: šventraštis — religious text
• Lithuanian: raštas — religious text
• Polish: święte księgi — religious text
• Portuguese: Escrituras — religious text
• Romanian: Sfânta Scriptură — religious text
• Russian: Писа́ние (Pisánije) — religious text
• Tagalog: kasulatan — religious text
• Tumbuka: malembo — religious text
• Bulgarian: свето писание (sveto pisanie) — any sacred writing or book
• Catalan: escriptura — any sacred writing or book
• Chinese Mandarin: 聖書 /圣书 (shèngshū) — any sacred writing or book
• Czech: posvátná kniha — any sacred writing or book
• Esperanto: skribo — any sacred writing or book
• Estonian: pühakiri — any sacred writing or book
• Finnish: pyhä kirjoitus — any sacred writing or book
• Finnish: pyhä kirja — any sacred writing or book
• French: écriture — any sacred writing or book
• German: Schrift — any sacred writing or book
• German: heilige Schrift — any sacred writing or book
• Gothic: 𐌼𐌴𐌻 (mēl) — any sacred writing or book
• Greek: γραφή (grafí) — any sacred writing or book
• Hebrew: כְּתוּבִים (ktuvím) — any sacred writing or book
• Hindi: धर्मग्रंथ (dharmagranth) — any sacred writing or book
• Hungarian: szentírás — any sacred writing or book
• Icelandic: ritningin — any sacred writing or book
• Icelandic: ritningargrein — any sacred writing or book
• Indonesian: kitab suci — any sacred writing or book
• Indonesian: kitab — any sacred writing or book
• Japanese: 聖句 (seiku) — any sacred writing or book
• Māori: karaipiture — any sacred writing or book
• Norman: êcrituthe — any sacred writing or book
• Old Occitan: scriptura — any sacred writing or book
• Old English: ǣ — any sacred writing or book
• Polish: święta księga — any sacred writing or book
• Portuguese: escritura — any sacred writing or book
• Punjabi: ਕਤੇਬ (kateb) — any sacred writing or book
• Punjabi: کَتیب (kateb) — any sacred writing or book
• Russian: писа́ние (pisánije) — any sacred writing or book
• Russian: свяще́нное писа́ние (svjaščénnoje pisánije) — any sacred writing or book
• Russian: свяще́нная кни́га (svjaščénnaja kníga) — any sacred writing or book
• Spanish: escritura — any sacred writing or book
• Spanish: escriptura — any sacred writing or book
• Tagalog: kasulatan — any sacred writing or book
• Tagalog: banal na kasulatan — any sacred writing or book
• Tocharian B: śāstär — any sacred writing or book
• Turkish: yazı — any sacred writing or book
• Ottoman Turkish: یازی (yazı) — any sacred writing or book
• Vietnamese: thánh thư — any sacred writing or book
• Welsh: ysgrythur — any sacred writing or book
• Polish: autorytatywna wypowiedź — an authoritative statement