scribo

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

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

scrībō (present infinitive scrībere, perfect active scrīpsī, supine scrīptum); third conjugation

1. to write

   Synonym: perscrībō

• 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

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

• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], 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