conscribo
Latin
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kõːˈskriː.boː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [konˈskriː.bo]
Verb
cōnscrībō (present infinitive cōnscrībere, perfect active cōnscrīpsī, supine cōnscrīptum); third conjugation
- to enroll or enlist, levy (write together in a list)
- to draw up, compose, write
- 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Cato Maior De Senectute 1.1:
- Nunc autem vīsum est mihi dē senectūte aliquid ad tē cōnscrībere.
- Now, however, I have resolved to write something to you on the subject of old age.
- Nunc autem vīsum est mihi dē senectūte aliquid ad tē cōnscrībere.
Conjugation
Conjugation of cōnscrībō (third conjugation)
Derived terms
Descendants
- English: conscribe
- Italian: coscrivere
- Romanian: conscrie
References
- “conscribo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “conscribo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “conscribo”, 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 book: librum scribere, conscribere
- to make a will: testamentum facere, conscribere
- to levy troops: milites (exercitum) scribere, conscribere
- to write a book: librum scribere, conscribere