Latin

Etymology

Future active participle of scrībō (“to write”).

Participle

scrīptūrus (feminine scrīptūra, neuter scrīptūrum); first/second-declension participle

  1. about to write

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

References

  • “scripturus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) a clerical error, copyist's mistake: mendum (scripturae) (Fam. 6. 7. 1)