writere

writere

1. Alternative form of writer

From wrītan +‎ -ere.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwriː.te.re/

wrītere m

1. writer
2. used in numerous more specific senses, including:
   1. scribe
   2. secretary
   3. draughtsman
   4. painter

• (scribe): bōcere
• (painter): mētere

• ǣwrītere (“writer of laws”)
• cranicwrītere (“chronicler”)
• ealdwrītere (“antiquarian”)
• inwrītere (“resident scribe, private secretary”)
• notwrītere (“writer of notes”)
• rihtwrītere (“good writer”)
• stæfwrītere (“grammarian”)
• stǣrwrītere (“historian”)
• tīdwrītere (“chronicler”)
• unwrītere (“bad writer”)

• Middle English: writer, writere, wryter, writere, wrytter, wrytere, wrijtere
  • English: writer
  • Scots: writer

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “wrītere”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.