wroten

English

Verb

wroten

1. (archaic) past participle of write; written.
   • 1843, John Hooper, Samuel Carr, Early Writings of John Hooper - Page 169

     ... I have ones agayne wroten to my cosen Richard Hyll, ...

   • 1872, John Payne Collier, Walter Calverley Trevelyan, Charles Edward Trevelyan, Trevelyan Papers ... - Page 74

     For the scripture was wroten to lead us unto God, and unto repentance of ill. It was wroten to teach us God and all godliness, and not to move such ...

Anagrams

• Towner, towner

Middle English

Etymology 1

From wroot +‎ -en (verbal plural suffix).

Alternative forms

• wrooten

Verb

wroten

2. plural past indicative of writen

Etymology 2

From Old English wrōtan, from Proto-Germanic *wrōtaną.

Alternative forms

• wrote, wrooten, wrotyn

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwroːtən/

Verb

wroten

2. To use one's nose or snout to rummage or root.
3. To extract with one's nose or snout; to have rooted.
4. To remove soil, earth, or ground; to dig up.
5. (rare) To crawl or slither as a worm.
6. (rare) To cause irritation or annoyance.
7. (rare) To till; to move soil for agriculture.

Conjugation

Related terms

• wrot
• wrotynge

Descendants

• English: root
• Scots: wrutt, wort, rute, wirt, ruit

References

• “wrọ̄ten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-16.