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noun, feminine

écriture

/e.kʁi.tyʁ/

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

écriture is feminine in French.

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.