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Perfect participle of scrībō (“write”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈskriːp.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈskrip.tum]

scrīptum n (genitive scrīptī); second declension

1. text; anything written, writing

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• scrīptiō

scrīptum

1. inflection of scrīptus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

scrīptum

1. accusative supine of scrībō

• “scriptum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “scriptum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “scriptum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) from memory; by heart: ex memoria (opp. de scripto)
    
  • (ambiguous) we read in history: apud rerum scriptores scriptum videmus, scriptum est
    
  • (ambiguous) to read a speech: de scripto orationem habere, dicere (opp. sine scripto, ex memoria)
    
  • (ambiguous) to hold by the letter (of the law): verba ac litteras or scriptum (legis) sequi (opp. sententia the spirit)
    
  • (ambiguous) we read in Plato: apud Platonem scriptum videmus, scriptum est or simply est
    
  • (ambiguous) in Plato's 'Phaedo' we read: in Platonis Phaedone scriptum est
    
  • (ambiguous) a man's soul breathes through his writings: alicuius mens in scriptis spirat
    
  • (ambiguous) full of orthographical errors: mendose scriptum
    
  • (ambiguous) a letter to Atticus: epistula ad Atticum data, scripta, missa or quae ad A. scripta est
    
  • (ambiguous) the law says..: in lege scriptum est, or simply est