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noun, feminine

écriture

/e.kʁi.tyʁ/

noun, feminine/e.kʁi.tyʁ/plural: écritures

writing; scripture; handwriting; accounts entry, entry in the books

Il a une mauvaise écriture.He has bad handwriting.

Inherited from Middle French and Old French escriture, inherited from Latin scrīptūra (“a writing, scripture”), from scrīptum, the supine of scrībō (“to write”). Compare Middle French scripture, a borrowing from Latin.