# subscribe
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English subscriben, subskryben, from Latin subscrībere. Compare its native English equivalent underwrite.

### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /səbˈskɹaɪb/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪb

### Verb

subscribe (third-person singular simple present subscribes, present participle subscribing, simple past and past participle subscribed)
* (ergative) To sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for a period of time.
    Would you like to subscribe or subscribe a friend to our new magazine, Lexicography Illustrated?
* To pay for the provision of a service, such as Internet access, a cell phone plan, or a streaming service.
    I subscribed to this streaming service years ago.
* To believe or agree with a theory or an idea [with to].
    I don’t subscribe to that theory.
* To pay money to be a member of an organization.
* (intransitive) To contribute or promise to contribute money to a common fund.
** 1913, Theodore Roosevelt, Autobiography:[…] under no circumstances could I ever again be nominated for any public office, as no corporation would subscribe to a campaign fund if I was on the ticket, and that they would subscribe most heavily to beat me;
* (transitive) To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount.
    Each man subscribed ten dollars.
* (business and finance) To agree to buy shares in a company.
** 1776, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations:The capital which had been subscribed to this bank, at two different subscriptions, amounted to one hundred and sixty thousand pounds, of which eighty per cent only was paid up.
* (transitive) To sign; to mark with one's signature as a token of consent or attestation.
    Parties subscribe a covenant or contract; a man subscribes a bond.
    Officers subscribe their official acts, and secretaries and clerks subscribe copies or records.
** 1806, US Articles of War:[E]very officer who shall hereafter be appointed, shall, before he enters on the duties of his office, subscribe these rules and regulations.
** 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity‎:All the bishops subscribed the sentence.
* (archaic outside law) To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).
** c. 1510, Thomas More, The Life of Pico della Mirandola:[They] subscribed their names under them.
** 1906, The New York Supplement, page 729:[…] although the will is holographic, and a holographic instrument cannot be admitted to probate where testator told the subscribing witnesses that it was not his will, […]
** 1957, Estates of Incompetent Veterans: Hearings Before the United States House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, page 1968:Commission to take testimony: testimony of subscribing witnesses may be taken by commission […]
* (obsolete) To sign away; to yield; to surrender.
** c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):Admit no other way to save his life , (As I subscribe not that, nor any other, But in the loss of question) […]
* (obsolete) To yield; to admit to being inferior or in the wrong.
* (obsolete, transitive) To declare over one's signature; to publish.
** 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:I will subscribe him a coward.
* (intransitive) To indicate interest in the communications made by a person or organization.
    Please like this video, and subscribe to my YouTube channel.
* (intransitive, programming) To register for notifications about an event or similar.
    If you subscribe to the MouseClick event, your application can react to the user clicking the mouse.

#### Synonyms

* sign up
* underwrite

#### Derived terms

* oversubscribe
* resubscribe
* subscribable
* subscriber
* subscript
* subscription
* unsubscribe

#### Translations
## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /subˈskriː.be/, [s̠ʊpˈs̠kriːbɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /subˈskri.be/, [subˈskriːbe]

### Verb

subscrībe
* second-person singular present active imperative of subscrībō

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /subsˈkɾibe/ [suβ̞sˈkɾi.β̞e]
* Rhymes: -ibe
* Syllabification: subs‧cri‧be

### Verb

subscribe
* inflection of subscribir:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative