FromProto-Italic*skreiβō (with scrīptus for *scriptus after scrīpsī), fromProto-Indo-European*(s)kreybʰ-. Cognates includeAncient Greekσκάριφος(skáriphos).
Compare typologically Ancient Greekγράφω(gráphō) < Proto-Indo-European*gerbʰ-; Proto-Germanic*wrītaną(“to scratch, to carve; to engrave, to inscribe, to write”) (whence Englishwrite);начерта́ние(načertánije),черти́ть(čertítʹ) << Proto-Indo-European*(s)ker-.
scrībō (present infinitivescrībere,perfect activescrīpsī,supinescrīptum);third conjugation
- towrite
- Synonym:perscrībō
- Balkan Romance:
- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Borrowings:
- Reflexes of an assumed variant*scrībīre
- 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 orscribere 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 (notdare)
- a legislator:qui leges scribit (notlegum 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 orscriptum (legis) sequi (opp.sententia the spirit)
- (ambiguous) we read in Plato:apud Platonem scriptum videmus,scriptum est or simplyest
- (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 simplyest
- “scribo”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “scribo”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “scribo”, inGaffiot, 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
