manuskripts

manuskripts n

1. indefinite genitive singular of manuskript

Via other European languages, ultimately borrowed from Medieval Latin manuscriptum (“writing by hand”), from Latin manus (“hand”) and scrīptus, the past participle of scrībō (“to write”), apparently a calque of Germanic origin (cf. earlier Middle High German hantschrift, hantgeschrift, Old English handġewrit (“what is written by hand, deed, contract, manuscript”), Old Norse handrit (“manuscript”)).

• IPA^(key): [manuskɾipts]

manuskripts m (1st declension)

1. (history) manuscript (a handwritten text, usually an old one)

   viduslaiku manuskripts ― medieval manuscript

   literatūras muzeju manuskripti ― literature museum manuscripts

   es simtgadīgo ķieģeļu kaudzē atradu vecu manuskriptu... tas bija arābu burtiem ar melnu un sarkanu tušu aprakstīts pergaments ― I found an old manuscript in a pile of hundred-year-old bricks... it was a parchment covered with Arabic letters in black and red ink

2. manuscript (the author's original version of a text intended for future publication)

   stāsta manuskripts ― the manuscript of a (short) story

   romāna manuskripts ― the manuscript of a novel

   zinātniska raksta manuskripts ― the manuscript of a scientific article

   rediģēt manuskriptu ― to edit the manuscript

   pārrakstīt manuskriptu ― to rewrite the manuscript

   iesniegt manuskriptu divos eksemplāros ― to submit the manuscript in duplicate

   Egle sniedza Bērsonam vākus ar manuskriptu ― Egle gave Bērsons the folder with the manuscript

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manuskripts

1. indefinite genitive singular of manuskript
2. indefinite genitive plural of manuskript