Latin

Verb

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

1. I write

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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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “scribo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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