{"id":20526,"date":"2021-02-05T18:21:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T18:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=20526"},"modified":"2021-02-05T18:25:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T18:25:01","slug":"scribacious-library-mice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=20526","title":{"rendered":"Scribacious Library Mice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting word I learnt the other day while listening to the <a href=\"https:\/\/play.acast.com\/s\/somethingrhymeswithpurple\/c60428ce-621c-11eb-a4a6-ff7dd223eef0\">Something Rhymes with Purple<\/a> podcast was <strong>scribacious<\/strong>, which means \u201cprone to excessive writing\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/scribacious\">source<\/a>], \u201chaving the tendency to write a lot or too much\u201c [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.collinsdictionary.com\/dictionary\/english\/scribacious\">source<\/a>], or \u201caddicted to writing, fond of writing\u201d [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.english-for-students.com\/scrib.html\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scribacious<\/strong> comes from <strong>scribe<\/strong> (someone who writes), from the Middle English <em>scribe<\/em>, from the Old French <em>scribe<\/em> (scribe), from the Late Latin <em>scriba<\/em> (secretary), from <em>scribere<\/em> (to write, draw (up), draft, scratch).<\/p>\n<p>Are there any other words that mean &#8220;fond of writing&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Some related words include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>scribaciousnesss = the quality or state of being scribacious<\/li>\n<li>scribal = relating to scribes and their work<\/li>\n<li>scribely = of, relating to, or characteristic of a scribe; scribal<\/li>\n<li>scribable = capable of being written upon<\/li>\n<li>scribbleomania = obsession with scribbling<\/li>\n<li>scripturient = having a violent desire to write<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/bookworm2.gif\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px; border:thin solid Black;\" alt=\"Bookworm \/ Library mouse\" width=\"208\" height=\"208\"><\/p>\n<p>One who is fond of reading might be called <strong>bookish<\/strong>, a <strong>bookworm<\/strong> or a <strong>bibliophile<\/strong>. Do you know any other words for this?<\/p>\n<p>In Dutch a bookworm is a <strong>boekenwurm<\/strong> [<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.reverso.net\/english-dutch\/bookworm\">source<\/a>], and similarly in German a bookworm is a <strong>B\u00fccherwurm<\/strong> [<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.reverso.net\/english-german\/bookworm\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>In Spanish a bookworm is a <strong>rat\u00f3n de biblioteca<\/strong> (a library mouse), a <strong>rat\u00f3n de archivo<\/strong> (an archive mouse), a <strong>gusano de libro<\/strong> (a bookworm) [<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.reverso.net\/english-spanish\/bookworm\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>In French a bookworm is a <strong>rat de biblioth\u00e8que<\/strong> (a library rat) or a <strong>d\u00e9voreur de livres<\/strong> (a devourer of books) [<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.reverso.net\/english-french\/bookworm\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>In Italian a bookworm is a <strong>topo di bibliteca<\/strong> (a library rat\/mouse)  [<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.reverso.net\/english-italian\/bookworm\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>What about in other languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting word I learnt the other day while listening to the Something Rhymes with Purple podcast was scribacious, which means \u201cprone to excessive writing\u201d [source], \u201chaving the tendency to write a lot or too much\u201c [source], or \u201caddicted to writing, fond of writing\u201d [source]. Scribacious comes from scribe (someone who writes), from the Middle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,104,107,111,116,128,10,15,26,34,64,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-german","category-italian","category-language","category-latin","category-middle-english","category-old-french","category-spanish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20526"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20538,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20526\/revisions\/20538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}