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scribonormalized · scribo3 analyses · 2 lemmas
Lemma 1scribo, scribere, scripsi, scriptus
verb
to write; to compose
Morphology1 analysis
present indicative active 1st singularscrib + o · regular
Lewis & Short
scrībo, psi, ptum, 3, [root skrabh-, to dig; whence, scrobis, scrofa; schreiben]
sync. scripsti: scripstis, Enn. , or Trag. 239 Vahl.; scripse; 2. dico , , to scratch, grave, engrave with a sharp point; hence.
, to write, draw, or otherwise make lines, letters, figures, ( scalpo); (but the better reading is inscriptis). — Of drawing, ; charaxat ambas ungulis scribentibus genas.
: memor essem? etiam nunc mihi Scripta illa dicta sunt in animo Chrysidis De Glycerio, graven, imprinted
, with the accessory idea of intellectual action, of written composition of every kind, to write, write down, compose, describe, depict; to draw up, communicate, announce in writing (: compono, perscribo).
With : ; scripsere alii rem Versibus, Enn. (Ann. 221 Vahl.) — Of written communications, letters, ; Planc. , a — With a personal object: quis Martem digne scripserit aut.Merionem aut.Tydiden? who could depict, represent, ; in the — With two : cum auctor pugnae se A. Cornelium Cossum consulem scripserit, subscribed himself, declared himself in the inscription to be.
With object-clause — In , with or : scribitur nobis, magnam veteranorum multitudinem Romam convenisse jam, , Brut. et Cass.
With rel.-clause.
— of written communications, letters; usually with ad aliquem (less alicui) or de aliquā re; 1, 9, 2 — With ut, ne, — With — With ne. — With simple — In Tac. also, with — In as a formula of quotation from the Scriptures.
Publicists', milit., jurid., and business t. t., of written plans, drafts, and other writings of various import.
Publicists' t. t., to draw up, draught a law, decree, treaty, — very : senatusconsulto scribendo, or simply scribendo adesse, or also, ad scribendum esse, to witness the drawing up of a decree of the Senate; to subscribe it: erat nobis dictum, te existimare, alicui senatusconsulto, quod contra dignitatem tuam fieret, scribendo Lamiam affuisse, qui omnino consulibus illis numquam fuit ad scribendum, Orell. N. cr.; senatusconsulta scribuntur apud familiarem meum ( Caesarem). Et quidem cum in mentem venit (Caesari), ponor ad scribendum ( he adds my signature to it): S. C. auctoritas. Pridie Kal. Octob. in aede Apollinis scrib. affuerunt L. Domitius, , an official formula ( assum).
Milit. t. t.: scribere milites (legiones, supplementum, ), to enlist, enroll, levy; so, too: sex milia colonorum Albam in Aequos, to enroll for the purpose of sending, to send.
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Jurid. and business t. t.: dicam scribere (alicui), like to bring an action in writing against any one ( dica); of a lawyer, to draw up legal instruments (complaints or charges, contracts, wills, ); Manut. — Hence, , with a personal object: aliquem heredem, to appoint or designate any one as heir — Of contracts, notes, drafts, : nummos, usuras, (alicui), to give a note or bond for: scribe decem (tabulas) a Nerio, give ten notes or bonds drawn up by the usurer Nerius. scriptos expendere nummos, l. (Hold. cautos); rescribo. — Hence, scriptum, i, , something written, viz.
( I.) A line; only: duodecim scripta, a game played with colored stones (calculi) on a draught-board marked into spaces by twelve oblique lines: tibi concedo, quod in duodecim scriptis olim, ut calculum reducas, si te alicujus dati poenitet, Cic. Fragm.
( II.) A written composition, writing, treatise, book, work, (most in ); in : ut ipsis scriptis non ea mandaremus; on the contrary: de scripto dicere, to speak or read from a written paper.
( II. B. 1.) Scriptum legis, and simply scriptum, a written ordinance, a law.
Lemma 2scribo
nounmasculine
qui inscrit, recruteur · to write; to compose
Morphology2 analyses
nominative singularscribo · regular
vocative singularscribo · regular
Lewis & Short
scrībo, psi, ptum, 3, [root skrabh-, to dig; whence, scrobis, scrofa; schreiben]
sync. scripsti: scripstis, Enn. , or Trag. 239 Vahl.; scripse; 2. dico , , to scratch, grave, engrave with a sharp point; hence.
, to write, draw, or otherwise make lines, letters, figures, ( scalpo); (but the better reading is inscriptis). — Of drawing, ; charaxat ambas ungulis scribentibus genas.
: memor essem? etiam nunc mihi Scripta illa dicta sunt in animo Chrysidis De Glycerio, graven, imprinted
, with the accessory idea of intellectual action, of written composition of every kind, to write, write down, compose, describe, depict; to draw up, communicate, announce in writing (: compono, perscribo).
With : ; scripsere alii rem Versibus, Enn. (Ann. 221 Vahl.) — Of written communications, letters, ; Planc. , a — With a personal object: quis Martem digne scripserit aut.Merionem aut.Tydiden? who could depict, represent, ; in the — With two : cum auctor pugnae se A. Cornelium Cossum consulem scripserit, subscribed himself, declared himself in the inscription to be.
With object-clause — In , with or : scribitur nobis, magnam veteranorum multitudinem Romam convenisse jam, , Brut. et Cass.
With rel.-clause.
— of written communications, letters; usually with ad aliquem (less alicui) or de aliquā re; 1, 9, 2 — With ut, ne, — With — With ne. — With simple — In Tac. also, with — In as a formula of quotation from the Scriptures.
Publicists', milit., jurid., and business t. t., of written plans, drafts, and other writings of various import.
Publicists' t. t., to draw up, draught a law, decree, treaty, — very : senatusconsulto scribendo, or simply scribendo adesse, or also, ad scribendum esse, to witness the drawing up of a decree of the Senate; to subscribe it: erat nobis dictum, te existimare, alicui senatusconsulto, quod contra dignitatem tuam fieret, scribendo Lamiam affuisse, qui omnino consulibus illis numquam fuit ad scribendum, Orell. N. cr.; senatusconsulta scribuntur apud familiarem meum ( Caesarem). Et quidem cum in mentem venit (Caesari), ponor ad scribendum ( he adds my signature to it): S. C. auctoritas. Pridie Kal. Octob. in aede Apollinis scrib. affuerunt L. Domitius, , an official formula ( assum).
Milit. t. t.: scribere milites (legiones, supplementum, ), to enlist, enroll, levy; so, too: sex milia colonorum Albam in Aequos, to enroll for the purpose of sending, to send.
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Jurid. and business t. t.: dicam scribere (alicui), like to bring an action in writing against any one ( dica); of a lawyer, to draw up legal instruments (complaints or charges, contracts, wills, ); Manut. — Hence, , with a personal object: aliquem heredem, to appoint or designate any one as heir — Of contracts, notes, drafts, : nummos, usuras, (alicui), to give a note or bond for: scribe decem (tabulas) a Nerio, give ten notes or bonds drawn up by the usurer Nerius. scriptos expendere nummos, l. (Hold. cautos); rescribo. — Hence, scriptum, i, , something written, viz.
( I.) A line; only: duodecim scripta, a game played with colored stones (calculi) on a draught-board marked into spaces by twelve oblique lines: tibi concedo, quod in duodecim scriptis olim, ut calculum reducas, si te alicujus dati poenitet, Cic. Fragm.
( II.) A written composition, writing, treatise, book, work, (most in ); in : ut ipsis scriptis non ea mandaremus; on the contrary: de scripto dicere, to speak or read from a written paper.
( II. B. 1.) Scriptum legis, and simply scriptum, a written ordinance, a law.
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