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escribano¹

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Spanish escribano. Doublet of scrivener and scrivano.

noun escribanos

  1. A clerk; a scrivener. They robbed a gentleman and ill-treated him, but his brother, who was an escribano, was soon upon their trail, and had them arrested; but he wanted some one to identify them, and it chanced that they had stopped to drink water at my stall […]

Escribano²

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Spanish Escribano.

proper noun Escribanos

  1. A surname from Spanish.

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MLA

"escribano." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/escribano. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

escribano. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/escribano

Chicago

"escribano." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/escribano.

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@misc{escribano_2026,
  title = {escribano},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/escribano},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}