describo

Galician

Verb

describo

1. first-person singular present indicative of describir

Latin

Etymology

From dē- +‎ scrībō (“write”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /deːsˈkriː.boː/, [d̪eːs̠ˈkriːboː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /desˈkri.bo/, [d̪esˈkriːbo]

Verb

dēscrībō (present infinitive dēscrībere, perfect active dēscrīpsī, supine dēscrīptum); third conjugation

1. to copy off or transcribe something from the original, write down, write out
2. to describe in painting or writing, draw, draw out, sketch off
3. (figuratively) to represent, delineate, describe
4. (figuratively) to mark off, establish, define, divide or distribute into parts

Conjugation

Conjugation of dēscrībō (third conjugation)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	dēscrībō	dēscrībis	dēscrībit	dēscrībimus	dēscrībitis	dēscrībunt
	imperfect	dēscrībēbam	dēscrībēbās	dēscrībēbat	dēscrībēbāmus	dēscrībēbātis	dēscrībēbant
	future	dēscrībam	dēscrībēs	dēscrībet	dēscrībēmus	dēscrībētis	dēscrībent
	perfect	dēscrīpsī	dēscrīpsistī	dēscrīpsit	dēscrīpsimus	dēscrīpsistis	dēscrīpsērunt, dēscrīpsēre
	pluperfect	dēscrīpseram	dēscrīpserās	dēscrīpserat	dēscrīpserāmus	dēscrīpserātis	dēscrīpserant
	future perfect	dēscrīpserō	dēscrīpseris	dēscrīpserit	dēscrīpserimus	dēscrīpseritis	dēscrīpserint
passive	present	dēscrībor	dēscrīberis, dēscrībere	dēscrībitur	dēscrībimur	dēscrībiminī	dēscrībuntur
	imperfect	dēscrībēbar	dēscrībēbāris, dēscrībēbāre	dēscrībēbātur	dēscrībēbāmur	dēscrībēbāminī	dēscrībēbantur
	future	dēscrībar	dēscrībēris, dēscrībēre	dēscrībētur	dēscrībēmur	dēscrībēminī	dēscrībentur
	perfect	dēscrīptus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	dēscrīptus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	dēscrīptus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	dēscrībam	dēscrībās	dēscrībat	dēscrībāmus	dēscrībātis	dēscrībant
	imperfect	dēscrīberem	dēscrīberēs	dēscrīberet	dēscrīberēmus	dēscrīberētis	dēscrīberent
	perfect	dēscrīpserim	dēscrīpserīs	dēscrīpserit	dēscrīpserīmus	dēscrīpserītis	dēscrīpserint
	pluperfect	dēscrīpsissem	dēscrīpsissēs	dēscrīpsisset	dēscrīpsissēmus	dēscrīpsissētis	dēscrīpsissent
passive	present	dēscrībar	dēscrībāris, dēscrībāre	dēscrībātur	dēscrībāmur	dēscrībāminī	dēscrībantur
	imperfect	dēscrīberer	dēscrīberēris, dēscrīberēre	dēscrīberētur	dēscrīberēmur	dēscrīberēminī	dēscrīberentur
	perfect	dēscrīptus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	dēscrīptus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	dēscrībe	—	—	dēscrībite	—
	future	—	dēscrībitō	dēscrībitō	—	dēscrībitōte	dēscrībuntō
passive	present	—	dēscrībere	—	—	dēscrībiminī	—
	future	—	dēscrībitor	dēscrībitor	—	—	dēscrībuntor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		dēscrībere	dēscrīpsisse	dēscrīptūrum esse	dēscrībī	dēscrīptum esse	dēscrīptum īrī
participles		dēscrībēns	—	dēscrīptūrus	—	dēscrīptus	dēscrībendus, dēscrībundus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		dēscrībendī	dēscrībendō	dēscrībendum	dēscrībendō	dēscrīptum	dēscrīptū

Derived terms

• dēscrīptiō
• dēscrīptor
• dēscrīptus

 

Related terms

Related terms

• āscrībō
• circumscrībō
• cōnscrībō
• contrāscrībō
• dīscrībō
• exscrībō
• īnscrībō
• interscrībō
• perscrībō
• postscrībō
• praescrībō
• prōscrībō
• rescrībō
• scrībō
• subscrībō
• superscrībō
• trānscrībō

Descendants

• Catalan: descriure
• Galician: describir
• Italian: descrivere
• Old French: descrivre
  • French: décrire
    • → Romanian: descrie
  • → Middle English: descrive
    • → English: describe
• Portuguese: descrever
• Sicilian: discrìviri
• Spanish: describir

References

• “describo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “describo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• describo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to draw geometrical figures: formas (not figuras) geometricas describere
    
  • to allude to a person or thing (not alludere): describere aliquem (Cael. 20. 50)
    
  • to give the state a constitution: civitati leges, iudicia, iura describere
    
• describo in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Spanish

Verb

describo

1. first-person singular present indicative of describir