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scribo

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Etymology

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    From Proto-Italic *skreiβō (with scrīptus for *scriptus after scrīpsī), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreybh- . Cognates include Ancient Greek σκάριφος (skáriphos); Danish , Norwegian Bokmål , and Norwegian Nynorsk skrive , skrifte ; English scribe , shrive ; German schreiben .

    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

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    Verb

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

    1. to write
      Synonym: perscrībō

    Conjugation

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       Conjugation of scrībō (third conjugation)
    indicative singular plural
    first second third first second third
    active present scrībō scrībis scrībit scrībimus scrībitis scrībunt
    imperfect scrībēbam scrībēbās scrībēbat scrībēbāmus scrībēbātis scrībēbant
    future scrībam scrībēs scrībet scrībēmus scrībētis scrībent
    perfect scrīpsī scrīpsistī scrīpsit scrīpsimus scrīpsistis scrīpsērunt ,
    scrīpsēre
    pluperfect scrīpseram scrīpserās scrīpserat scrīpserāmus scrīpserātis scrīpserant
    future perfect scrīpserō scrīpseris scrīpserit scrīpserimus scrīpseritis scrīpserint
    passive present scrībor scrīberis ,
    scrībere
    scrībitur scrībimur scrībiminī scrībuntur
    imperfect scrībēbar scrībēbāris ,
    scrībēbāre
    scrībēbātur scrībēbāmur scrībēbāminī scrībēbantur
    future scrībar scrībēris ,
    scrībēre
    scrībētur scrībēmur scrībēminī scrībentur
    perfect scrīptus + present active indicative of sum
    pluperfect scrīptus + imperfect active indicative of sum
    future perfect scrīptus + future active indicative of sum
    subjunctive singular plural
    first second third first second third
    active present scrībam scrībās scrībat scrībāmus scrībātis scrībant
    imperfect scrīberem scrīberēs scrīberet scrīberēmus scrīberētis scrīberent
    perfect scrīpserim scrīpserīs scrīpserit scrīpserīmus scrīpserītis scrīpserint
    pluperfect scrīpsissem scrīpsissēs scrīpsisset scrīpsissēmus scrīpsissētis scrīpsissent
    passive present scrībar scrībāris ,
    scrībāre
    scrībātur scrībāmur scrībāminī scrībantur
    imperfect scrīberer scrīberēris ,
    scrīberēre
    scrīberētur scrīberēmur scrīberēminī scrīberentur
    perfect scrīptus + present active subjunctive of sum
    pluperfect scrīptus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
    imperative singular plural
    first second third first second third
    active present scrībe scrībite
    future scrībitō scrībitō scrībitōte scrībuntō
    passive present scrībere scrībiminī
    future scrībitor scrībitor scrībuntor
    non-finite forms infinitive participle
    active passive active passive
    present scrībere scrībī scrībēns
    future scrīptūrum esse scrīptum īrī scrīptūrus scrībendus ,
    scrībundus
    perfect scrīpsisse scrīptum esse scrīptus
    future perfect scrīptum fore
    perfect potential scrīptūrum fuisse
    verbal nouns gerund supine
    genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
    scrībendī scrībendō scrībendum scrībendō scrīptum scrīptū

    Derived terms

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    Descendants

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    (Note: see also scrībendum for more descendants.)

    Reflexes of an assumed variant *scrībīre:

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    Further reading

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    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1] , 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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