scribe..transcribe..translate

Some of these are verbs (action words) and some are nouns. Scripture means holy writings, like the Bible or the Q'uran. Parchment is a type of old paper not used anymore unless for really special things (your diploma might be on parchment, but your fast food menu never will be).

Scribe is a person, someone who professionally writes. The term was used in ancient times to indicate people who kept records. Today, we'd probably call those people reporters or secretaries or even notetakers, it kind of depends on what they're writing and why, and their level of education.

Translate means to convert from one language (say, English) to another (Spanish, for example). Transcribe means to write down from dictation, either live dictation or tape-recorded. It can also be from something you hear on the radio or TV. It can even mean writing down court testimony. A script is the words that actors must memorize in order to act in a play or movie or even a TV commercial. Some people use script as a shortening of the term "transcript" (that's what the finished product is called when you transcribe something), although that's not always really an accepted usage.

You can use them all in a sentence like this -

According to the movie script, the character of the scribe is supposed to translate the Spanish scripture from his boss's dictation and then transcribe it onto parchment.

scribe = usually used as a noun to describe someone who scribes (i.e. writes)

A couple of roots away is the latin root scrbere, to write. You can see evidence of this root in other words like transcribe.

trans is a prefix that can be understood to mean from one to another.

transport means to port (in the meaning of move) from one place to another for example.

So transcribe means to transfer writing from one source to a new one.

Scripture really just means writing, or text. But it is commonly associated with the writings and texts in the Bible.

Script also just means writing, but has many more specific meanings from the text for a play or film to even the text for a computer program.

Parchment was originally stretched animal skin used for writing, and later came to mean similar paper.