write

English

Etymology

From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#WRITECategory:English terms derived from Middle English#WRITE writen, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#WRITECategory:English terms derived from Old English#WRITE wrītan, from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#WRITECategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#WRITE *wrītan, from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#WRITECategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#WRITE *wrītaną (to carve, write), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#WRITE *wrey- (to rip, tear).

Cognate with West Frisian write (to wear by rubbing, rip, tear), Dutch wrijten (to argue, quarrel), Middle Low German wrîten (to scratch, draw, write) (> Low German wrieten, rieten (to tear, split)), German reißen (to tear, rip), Norwegian rita (to rough-sketch, carve, write), Swedish rita (to draw, design, delineate, model), Icelandic rita (to cut, scratch, write), German ritzen (to carve, scratch), Proto-Slavic *ryti (to carve, engrave, dig), Polish ryć (to engrave, dig), Czech rýt (to engrave, dig). See also rit and rat.

Pronunciation

Verb

A painting of a man writing.

write (third-person singular simple present writes, present participle writing, simple past wrote or (archaic) writ, past participle written or (archaic) writ or (obsolete) ywriten)Category:English lemmas#WRITECategory:English verbs#WRITECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#WRITECategory:Pages with entries#WRITECategory:Pages with 4 entries#WRITE

  1. (ambitransitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#WRITECategory:English intransitive verbs#WRITE) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
    The pupil wrote his name on the paper.Category:English terms with usage examples#WRITE
    Your son has been writing on the wall.Category:English terms with usage examples#WRITE
  2. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#WRITE) To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
    My uncle writes newspaper articles for The Herald.Category:English terms with usage examples#WRITE
  3. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#WRITE) To compose and send written information (to).
    Please write to me when you get there. (UK)Category:English terms with usage examples#WRITE
    Please write me when you get there. (US)Category:English terms with usage examples#WRITE
    He never phones me, but he does write occasionally.Category:English terms with usage examples#WRITE
  4. (ditransitiveCategory:English ditransitive verbs#WRITE) To compose and send (written information or a written message, e.g. a letter) to.
    Please write me a letter. Please write a letter to me.Category:English terms with usage examples#WRITE
    1. (ditransitiveCategory:English ditransitive verbs#WRITE with relative clause) To convey a fact to someone via writing.
      Jimmy wrote me that he needs more money. (US)Category:English terms with usage examples#WRITE
      • 1916 March 11, “[advertisement] Jim Henry, Optimist”, in Saturday Evening Post:
        Do you know, one man actually wrote me he thought he could almost shave with the back of the blade, the lather "mellowed" his beard so.
        Category:English terms with quotations#WRITE
  5. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#WRITE) To show (information, etc) in written form.
    The due day of the homework is written in the syllabus.Category:English terms with usage examples#WRITE
  6. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#WRITE) To be an author.
  7. (computingCategory:en:Computing#WRITE, intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#WRITE, with to) To record data mechanically or electronically.
    The computer writes to the disk faster than it reads from it.Category:English terms with usage examples#WRITE
  8. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#WRITE, South AfricaCategory:South African English#WRITE, CanadaCategory:Canadian English#WRITE, of an exam, a document, etc.) To fill in, to complete using words.
    I was very anxious to know my score after I wrote the test.Category:English terms with usage examples#WRITE
  9. To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.
  10. To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
  11. (financeCategory:en:Finance#WRITE) To sell (an option or other derivative).
  12. (chiefly Eastern OrthodoxyCategory:en:Eastern Orthodoxy#WRITE) To paint a religious icon or a pysanka egg.

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Noun

write (plural writes)Category:English lemmas#WRITECategory:English nouns#WRITECategory:English countable nouns#WRITECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#WRITECategory:Pages with entries#WRITECategory:Pages with 4 entries#WRITE

  1. The act or style of writing.
  2. (computingCategory:en:Computing#WRITE) The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.
    How many writes per second can this hard disk handle?Category:English terms with usage examples#WRITE

Derived terms

References

Anagrams

Category:English strong verbs#WRITECategory:English irregular verbs#WRITE Category:en:Communication#WRITE

Middle English

Verb

writeCategory:Middle English alternative forms#WRITECategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#WRITECategory:Pages with entries#WRITECategory:Pages with 4 entries#WRITE

  1. alternative form of writen

Old English

Pronunciation

Verb

wrīteCategory:Old English non-lemma forms#WRITECategory:Old English verb forms#WRITECategory:Old English entries with incorrect language header#WRITECategory:Pages with entries#WRITECategory:Pages with 4 entries#WRITE

  1. inflection of wrītan:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. singular present subjunctive

Verb

writeCategory:Old English non-lemma forms#WRITECategory:Old English verb forms#WRITECategory:Old English entries with incorrect language header#WRITECategory:Pages with entries#WRITECategory:Pages with 4 entries#WRITE

  1. inflection of wrītan:
    1. second-person singular preterite indicative
    2. singular preterite subjunctive

West Frisian

Etymology

Category:West Frisian terms derived from Proto-Germanic#WRITECategory:West Frisian terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#WRITE

From Old FrisianCategory:West Frisian terms inherited from Old Frisian#WRITECategory:West Frisian terms derived from Old Frisian#WRITE wrīta, from Proto-West GermanicCategory:West Frisian terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#WRITECategory:West Frisian terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#WRITE *wrītan. Cognate with English write, Dutch wrijten.

Pronunciation

Verb

writeCategory:West Frisian lemmas#WRITECategory:West Frisian verbs#WRITECategory:West Frisian entries with incorrect language header#WRITECategory:Pages with entries#WRITECategory:Pages with 4 entries#WRITE

  1. to rip, to tear
  2. to be painful, to sting

Inflection

Strong class 1
infinitive write
3rd singular past wriet
past participle writen
infinitive write
long infinitive writen
gerund writen n
auxiliary hawwe
indicative present tense past tense
1st singular wryt wriet
2nd singular wrytst wrietst
clitic form wrytsto wrietsto
3rd singular wryt wriet
plural write wrieten
imperative wryt
participles writend writen
Category:West Frisian class 1 strong verbs#WRITECategory:West Frisian basic verbs#WRITE

Further reading

write”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

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