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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 ) .
Pronunciation
Verb
scrībō (present infinitive scrībere , perfect active scrīpsī , supine scrīptum ) ; third conjugation
to write
Synonym: perscrībō
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Borrowings:
→ Proto-Germanic: *skrībaną (see there for further descendants )
→ Old Irish: scríbaid
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