Etymology

From Proto-ItalicCategory:Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic#SCRIBOCategory:Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic#SCRIBO *skreiβō (with scrīptus for *scriptus after scrīpsī), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#SCRIBO *(s)kreybʰ-. Cognates include Ancient Greek σκάριφος (skáriphos).

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈskriː.boː]Category:Latin 2-syllable words#SCRIBOCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#SCRIBO
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈskriː.bo]Category:Latin 2-syllable words#SCRIBOCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#SCRIBO

Verb

scrībō (present infinitive scrībere, perfect active scrīpsī, supine scrīptum)Category:Latin lemmas#SCRIBOCategory:Latin verbs#SCRIBOCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#SCRIBOCategory:Pages with entries#SCRIBOCategory:Pages with 1 entry#SCRIBO; third conjugation

1. to write

   Synonym: perscrībō

References

• Buchi, Éva; Schweickard, Wolfgang (2008–), “*/ˈskriβ-e-/”, in Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman, Nancy: Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française.

Further reading

• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (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
    

  Category:Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
• “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