# scribo
## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *skreiβō (with scrīptus for *scriptus after scrīpsī), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreybʰ-. Cognates include Ancient Greek σκάριφος (skáriphos).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈskriː.boː/, [ˈs̠kriːboː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈskri.bo/, [ˈskriːbo]

### Verb

scrībō (present infinitive scrībere, perfect active scrīpsī, supine scrīptum); third conjugation
* to write
    Synonym: perscrībō

#### Derived terms

* adscrībō
* ascrībō
* circumscrībō
* cōnscrībō
* contrāscrībō
* dēscrībō
* dīscrībō
* exscrībō
* īnscrībō
* interscrībō
* perscrībō
* postscrībō
* praescrībō
* prōscrībō
* rescrībō
* scrīptus
* subscrībō
* superscrībō
* trānscrībō

#### Related terms

* scrība
* scrībātus
* scrīnium
* scrīptilis
* scrīptiō
* scrīptiōnālis
* scrīptitō
* scrīptiuncula
* scrīptor
* scrīptōrium
* scrīptōrius
* scrīptula
* scrīptum
* scrīptūra
* scrīptūriō
* scrīptus

#### Descendants

* Balkan Romance:
** Aromanian: scriu
** Romanian: scrie
* Dalmatian:
** scrivru
* Italo-Romance:
** Corsican: scriva
** Italian: scrivere
** Neapolitan: scrivere
** Sicilian: scrìviri
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: iscri, iscribere, iscriere, iscriri, iscrivere, scriri
* North Italian:
** Friulian: scrivi
** Istriot: screîvi, scrèivi
** Ladin: scriver, scrì
** Lombard: scrier
** Romansch: scriver, screiver
** Venetan: scrivar, scriver
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: escriure
** Franco-Provençal: ècrire
** Old French: escrivre (see there for further descendants)
** Gascon: escríber
** Occitan: escriure
* Ibero-Romance:
** Aragonese: escriure
** Old Galician-Portuguese: escrever
*** Portuguese: escrever (see there for further descendants)
* Borrowings:
** → Proto-Germanic: *skrībaną (see there for further descendants)
** → Old Irish: scríbaid
*** Irish: scríobh
*** Manx: screeu
*** Scottish Gaelic: sgrìobh

##### Reflexes of an assumed variant *scrībīre

* Aragonese: escribir, escrebir
* Old Leonese: [Term?]
** Asturian: escribir, escrebir
** Extremaduran: escrevil
** Leonese: escribire
** Mirandese: screbir
* Old Galician-Portuguese: escrivir
** Fala: escribil
** Galician: escribir, escrebir, escrever (reintegrationist)
* Old Spanish: escrivir
** Ladino: eskrivir
** Spanish: escribir, escrebir
*** Papiamentu: skirbi

### 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
* “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