scribo

Latin

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 .

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈskriː.boː/, [ˈs̠kriːboː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈskri.bo/, [ˈskriːbo]
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  Audio (Classical):

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Verb

1. I write

Descendants

Terms descendant from scrībō

• Aromanian: scriu, scriari, scriri
• Astur-Leonese:
  • Asturian: escribir
  • Extremaduran: escrevil
  • Leonese escribire
  • Mirandese: screbir
• → Breton: skrivañ
• → Cornish skrifa
• → Esperanto: skribi
• Friulian: scrivi
• → Ido: skribar
• Istriot: screîvi
• Italian: scrivere
• Ladin: scriver
• Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Aragonese: escribir
• → Northwest Germanic *skrībaną
  • Old English: scrīfan
    • English: inscribe, shrive
  • Dutch: schrijven, schribbelen
  • Old Frisian: skriva
    • West Frisian: skriuwe
  • Old High German: scrīban
    • Middle High German: schrīben
      • German: schreiben
      • Yiddish: שרײַבן (shraybn)
  • Old Norse: skrifa
    • Danish: skrive
    • Faroese: skriva
    • Icelandic: skrifa
    • Norwegian Bokmål: skrive
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: skriva
    • Swedish: skriva

• Old French: escrivre, escrire
  • French: écrire
  • Norman: êcrithe (Jersey)
  • Walloon: scrire
• → Old Irish: scríbaid
  • Irish: scríobh
  • Manx: screeu
  • Scottish Gaelic: sgrìobh
• Old Portuguese: escrever, escrivir
  • Fala: escribil
  • Galician: escribir
  • Portuguese: escrever
    • Kabuverdianu: skrebe
    • Annobonese: skeve
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: escriure
  • Occitan: escriure
• Old Spanish: escrivir
  • Ladino: eskrivir
  • Spanish: escribir
    • Papiamentu: skirbi
• Romanian: scrie, scriere
• Romansch: scriver, screiver
• Sardinian: iscri, iscribere, iscriere, iscriri, iscrivere, scriri
• Sicilian: scrìviri
• Venetian: scrivar, scriver
• → Welsh: ysgrifennu

References

• “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.
• 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
    
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN