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scrip·to·ri·um
 scriptorium
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- pronunciation:
- skrIp
to
ri
 m
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
noun |
| inflections: |
scriptoria, scriptoriums |
| definition: |
a room, esp. in a monastery, in which manuscripts are written or copied.
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adjective + (n.)scriptorium
communal, illuminating, important, monastic, present-day
verb + (n.)scriptorium
glean, listen
noun + (n.)scriptorium
adapter, antiquity, cathedral, copying, iconography, loci, manuscript, monastery, prose, scribe, storeroom, text, vitality
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The word scriptorium
contains the following parts:
scrib, script
Latin
root
that means to write
  Example words:
ascribe, ascription, circumscribe, conscript, conscription, describe, description, descriptive, escritoire, imprescriptible, indescribable, inscribe, inscription, manuscript, nondescript, oversubscribe, postscript, prescribe, prescript, prescriptible, prescription, prescriptive, proscribe, proscription, rescript, scribal, scribble, scribbler, scribe1, scrip, script, scriptorium, scriptural, Scripture, scriptwriter, scrivener, subscribe, subscript, subscription, superscribe, superscript, transcribe, transcript, transcriptase, typescript
-arium, -orium
Latin
noun-forming suffix
that means a place for
Example words:
aquarium, auditorium, cinerarium, herbarium, natatorium, oceanarium, planetarium, sanatorium, sanitarium, scriptorium, solarium, sudatorium, vivarium
- synonyms:
- -atory, -ary2
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