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scribo

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Latin

Etymology

    From Proto-Italic *skreiβō (with scrīptus for *scriptus after scrīpsī), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreybʰ-. Cognates include Ancient Greek σκάριφος (skáriphos).

    Compare typologically Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō) < Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-; Proto-Germanic *wrītaną (“to scratch, to carve; to engrave, to inscribe, to write”) (whence English write); начерта́ние (načertánije), черти́ть (čertítʹ) << Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    scrībō (present infinitive scrībere, perfect active scrīpsī, supine scrīptum); third conjugation

    1. to write
      Synonym: perscrībō

    Conjugation

       Conjugation of scrībō (third conjugation)
    More information indicative, singular ...

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    Reflexes of an assumed variant *scrībīre

    References

    Further reading

    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
      • to write a history: historiam (-as) scribere
      • to write poetry: versus facere, scribere
      • to write correctly, in faultless style: emendate scribere
      • to write good Latin: latine scribere (Opt. Gen. Or. 2. 4)
      • to take to writing, become an author: scribere
      • to write a book: librum scribere, conscribere
      • to write a letter to some one: epistulam (litteras) dare, scribere, mittere ad aliquem
      • to separate, be divorced (used of man or woman): repudium dicere or scribere alicui
      • to appoint some one as heir in one's will: aliquem heredem testamento scribere, facere
      • to make laws (of a legislator): leges scribere, facere, condere, constituere (not dare)
      • a legislator: qui leges scribit (not legum lator)
      • to levy troops: milites (exercitum) scribere, conscribere
      • to levy recruits to fill up the strength: supplementum cogere, scribere, legere
      • (ambiguous) we read in history: apud rerum scriptores scriptum videmus, scriptum est
      • (ambiguous) I have nothing to write about: non habeo, non est quod scribam
      • (ambiguous) to hold by the letter (of the law): verba ac litteras or scriptum (legis) sequi (opp. sententia the spirit)
      • (ambiguous) we read in Plato: apud Platonem scriptum videmus, scriptum est or simply est
      • (ambiguous) in Plato's 'Phaedo' we read: in Platonis Phaedone scriptum est
      • (ambiguous) full of orthographical errors: mendose scriptum
      • (ambiguous) the law says..: in lege scriptum est, or simply est
    • “scribo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “scribo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • “scribo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Sihler, Andrew L. (1995), New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
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