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Latin
Etymology
From ad- (“to”) + scrībō (“I write”).
Pronunciation
Verb
ascrībō (present infinitive ascrībere, perfect active ascrīpsī, supine ascrīptum); third conjugation
- to state in writing, to add in writing
- to insert
- to appoint, to enroll, to enfranchise, to reckon, to number
- Synonyms: addō, adnumerō, attribuō, īnserō, tribuō
- Colonos novos ascribere. ― To appoint new inhabitants.
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- “ascribo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ascribo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ascribo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to admit another into the circle of one's intimates: aliquem (tertium) ad (in) amicitiam ascribere
- to enroll as a citizen, burgess: in civitatem recipere, ascribere, asciscere aliquem