| Definitions | noun
- A table, frame, or case, usually with sloping top, but often with flat top, for the use writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.
- A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (esp. in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for the clerical profession.
Translations: - French: bureau , pupitre (school desk)
- German: Schreibtisch
- Spanish: escritorio , pupitre (school desk)
Etymology: From desca, from discus.
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