manuscript

aggettivosostantivocorrente nei dialoghi

//ˈmæn.jəˌskɹɪpt//

Handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically reproduced.

aggettivo

1
Handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically reproduced.

Etimologia

1597, from Medieval Latin manūscrīptus, a calque of Germanic origin, equivalent to Latin manū (ablative of manus (“hand”)) + Latin scrīptus (past participle of scribere (“to write”)). Not found in Classical Latin.

sostantivo

1
A book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced.
We read in history, that the beauty of an ancient manuscript tempted King Alfred, when a boy at his mother's knee, to learn the letters of the Saxon tongue.
In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.
The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.
The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.
2
A single, original copy of a book, article, composition etc, written by hand or even printed, submitted as original for (copy-editing and) reproductive publication.

Etimologia

From Medieval Latin manūscrīptum (“writing by hand”), a calque of Germanic origin: compare Middle Low German hantschrift (“manuscript, document”), Middle Dutch hantscrift (“manuscript”) (c. 1451), Old High German hantgiskrīb (“handwriting, document, manuscript”), Middle High German hantschrift, hantgeschrift (“manuscript”) (c. 1450), Old English handġewrit (“what is written by hand, deed, contract, manuscript”) (before 1150), Old Norse handrit (“manuscript”) (before 1300). Not found in Classical Latin.

Forme

plurale: manuscripts

manufacturer · A person or company that manufactures.manufacturing · The transformation of raw materials into finished products,…manure · To apply manure (as fertilizer or soil improver).

manuscript · Handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically reproduced.

many · before a countable noun: A large, indefinite number of.Many · A surname.mao · The ma'oma'o, Gymnomyza samoensis, a large passerine bird…

Le pagine vicine — L'ordine alfabetico segue le regole della lingua, non il valore dei byte: un accento distingue soltanto due parole per il resto identiche, e lo spagnolo tratta la Ñ come una lettera a sé.