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Vinony

written

adjective

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪ.tn̩/ / [ˈɹɪʔt̚n̩] / [ˈɹɪ.ʔn̩]

adj

Etymology: Morphologically write + -en.

  1. Of, relating, or characteristic of writing (i.e., of that which has been written).

    “Written language is a way of representing spoken language.”

  2. Having been written.

    “I can speak Japanese fairly well, but I have no understanding whatsoever of written Japanese.”

verb

Etymology: Morphologically write + -en.

  1. past participle of write

    “Has your girlfriend written you a letter yet?”

    “The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.”