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- scrivener (n.)[scrivener 词源字典]
- "professional penman, copyist," late 14c. (early 13c. as a surname), with superfluous -er + scrivein "scribe" (c. 1300), from Old French escrivain "a writer, notary, clerk" (Modern French écrivain), from Vulgar Latin *scribanem accusative of scriba "a scribe," from scribere "to write" (see script (n.)).[scrivener etymology, scrivener origin, 英语词源]