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scrībere to write
scrībere is a Latin Verb that primarily means to write.
Definitions for scrībere
Wheelock's Latin
Verb
- 1
to write, compose
English derivatives:
ascribe circumscribe conscript describe inscribe proscribe postscript rescript scripture subscribe transcribe scribble scrivener shrive
Sentences with scrībere
Latin to English
Litterās stilō scrīpsit.Compare He wrote the letter with a pencil (stilus, -ī).
Sī librōs bene legēs, melius scrībēs.Compare If you read books well, you write better.
Multa fero, ut placem genus irritabile vatum, cum scribo et supplex populi suffragia capto.Compare So long as I am writing and wooing on my knees the people's suffrages, I have to submit to much in order to pacify the sensitive race of poets.
Nulli se dicit mulier mea nubere malle quam mihi, non si se Iuppiter ipse petat. dicit: sed mulier cupido quod dicit amanti in vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.Compare My mistress says, there's not a man of all the many that she knows, she'd rather wed than me, not one, though Jove himself were to propose. She says so: but what woman says to him who fancies he has caught her, 'tis only fit it should be writ in air or running water. (Tr. Theodore Martin)
Difficile est saturam non scribere. nam quis iniquae tam patiens urbis, tam ferreus, ut teneat se...Compare It is hard not to write satire. For who is so tolerant of this unjust city, so unfeeling, as to hold himself back.
Sed tamen non dubito de idem res iterum scribo.Compare Yet nevertheless, I will not hesitate to write a second time on the same subject.
Quid irascor is qui aliquis scribo contra suus voluntas?Compare Why is he angry with one who has written something contrary to his own wishes?
Undecimus dies postquam a tu discedo, hic littera scribo.Compare I wrote this letter on the eleventh day after I had left you.
Conjugation table for scrībere
Cactus2000
| ACTIVE | |
| Indicative present | Indicative imperfect |
| scrībō scrībis scrībit scrībimus scrībitis scrībunt | scrībēbam scrībēbās scrībēbat scrībēbāmus scrībēbātis scrībēbant |
| Indicative perfect | Indicative pluperfect |
| scrīpsī scrīpsistī scrīpsit scrīpsimus scrīpsistis scrīpsērunt / scrīpsēre | scrīpseram scrīpserās scrīpserat scrīpserāmus scrīpserātis scrīpserant |
| Indicative future | Indicative future perfect |
| scrībam scrībēs scrībet scrībēmus scrībētis scrībent | scrīpserō scrīpseris scrīpserit scrīpserimus scrīpseritis scrīpserint |
| Subjunctive present | Subjunctive imperfect |
| scrībam scrībās scrībat scrībāmus scrībātis scrībant | scrīberem scrīberēs scrīberet scrīberēmus scrīberētis scrīberent |
| Subjunctive perfect | Subjunctive pluperfect |
| scrīpserim scrīpseris scrīpserit scrīpserimus scrīpseritis scrīpserint | scrīpsissem scrīpsissēs scrīpsisset scrīpsissēmus scrīpsissētis scrīpsissent |
Infinitive present scrībere Infinitive perfect scrīpsisse Infinitive future scrīptūrum esse | Imperative present scrībe scrībite Imperative future scrībitō scrībitō scrībitōte scrībuntō |
| PASSIVE | |
| Indicative present | Indicative imperfect |
| scrībor scrīberis scrībitur scrībimur scrībiminī scrībuntur | scrībēbar scrībēbāris / scrībēbāre scrībēbātur scrībēbāmur scrībēbāminī scrībēbantur |
| Indicative perfect | Indicative pluperfect |
| scrīptus sum scrīptus es scrīptus est scrīptī sumus scrīptī estis scrīptī sunt | scrīptus eram scrīptus erās scrīptus erat scrīptī erāmus scrīptī erātis scrīptī erant |
| Indicative future | Indicative future perfect |
| scrībar scrībēris / scrībēre scrībētur scrībēmur scrībēminī scrībentur | scrīptus erō scrīptus eris scrīptus erit scrīptī erimus scrīptī eritis scrīptī erunt |
| Subjunctive present | Subjunctive imperfect |
| scrībar scrībāris / scrībāre scrībātur scrībāmur scrībāminī scrībantur | scrīberer scrīberēris / scrīberēre scrīberētur scrīberēmur scrīberēminī scrīberentur |
| Subjunctive perfect | Subjunctive pluperfect |
| scrīptus sim scrīptus sīs scrīptus sit scrīptī sīmus scrīptī sītis scrīptī sint | scrīptus essem scrīptus essēs scrīptus esset scrīptī essēmus scrīptī essētis scrīptī essent |
Infinitive present scrībī Infinitive perfect scrīptum esse Infinitive future scrīptum īrī | Imperative present scrībere scrībiminī Imperative future scrībitor scrībitor - scrībuntor |
| PARTICIPLE | ||
| Participle present active | ||
| Nom. | scrībēns | scrībentēs |
| Gen. | scrībentis | scrībentium |
| Dat. | scrībentī | scrībentibus |
| Acc. | scrībentem | scrībentēs |
| Abl. | scrībente | scrībentibus |
| Participle future active | ||
| Nom. | scrīptūrus | scrīptūrī |
| Gen. | scrīptūrī | scrīptūrōrum |
| Dat. | scrīptūrō | scrīptūrīs |
| Acc. | scrīptūrum | scrīptūrōs |
| Abl. | scrīptūrō | scrīptūrīs |
| Participle perfect passive | ||
| Nom. | scrīptus | scrīptī |
| Gen. | scrīptī | scrīptōrum |
| Dat. | scrīptō | scrīptīs |
| Acc. | scrīptum | scrīptōs |
| Abl. | scrīptō | scrīptīs |
| Gerundive | ||
| Nom. | scrībendus | scrībendī |
| Gen. | scrībendī | scrībendōrum |
| Dat. | scrībendō | scrībendīs |
| Acc. | scrībendum | scrībendōs |
| Abl. | scrībendō | scrībendīs |
| Gerund | Supine | |
| Nom. | scrībere | scrīptum |
| Gen. | scrībendī | scrīptū |
| Dat. | scrībendō | |
| Acc. | scrībendum | |
| Abl. | scrībendō | |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 52.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 122.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "scrībō, scrībere, scrīpsī, scrīptum (v.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 21, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/scribo-scribere-scripsi-scriptum.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 52.scrībō, scrībere, scrīpsī, scr on page 52
