scriptorium Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a room in a monastery that is set aside for writing or copying manuscripts

WordNet

Scrip*to"ri*um noun
Etymology
LL. See Scriptory.
Wordforms
plural Scriptoria
Definitions
  1. In an abbey or monastery, the room set apart for writing or copying manuscripts; in general, a room devoted to writing.
    Writing rooms, or scriptoria, where the chief works of Latin literature . . . were copied and illuminated. J. R. Green.

Webster 1913