Noun: escribano
| Singular | escribano |
| Plural | escribanos |
Sample Sentences
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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 […] [1843, George Borrow, The Bible in Spain, London: Cassell and Company, Ltd.:]
Nouns inflected like escribano
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish escribano. Doublet of scrivener and scrivano. See: Spanish Nouns '
escribano'.