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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *skreybʰ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [kõːˈskriː.boː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [konˈskriː.bo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cōnscrībō''' (present infinitive cōnscrībere, perfect active cōnscrīpsī, supine cōnscrīptum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Festus has ''cōnscrībsisse'', Cato ''cōnscrībtus'', and a law inscription ''conscreiptus''.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|con-|scrībō|t2=to write]], “to write together” in a list.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan derives [[m|la|scrībō]] from [[itc-pro|*skreif-|t=to carve]], from [[ine-pro|*skreybʰ-|t=to carve]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) in whose ''Miles gloriosus'' the soldier asks someone ''ut sibi latrōnēs cōgerem et cōnscrīberem'', “to gather and enlist mercenaries for him”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Cōnscrībere'' is “to enrol, enlist”, very often as a military term for levying troops.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) It is also “to cover with writing” (tablets), “to write down”, and “to compose, draw up” a law, a contract or a book.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “enroll, elect, transcribe, commit to writing, inscribe”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: ''ut sibi latrōnēs cōgerem et cōnscrīberem'';^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) ''tacitus cōnscrīpsit tabellās'', “he silently wrote the tablets”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero speaks of a book written about his consulship.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy: ''tabellās cōnscrīptās'', “written tablets”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|enrol]], [[m|en|enlist]], levy (troops).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To cover with writing.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To write down, record.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To compose, draw up, write.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[cōnscrībillō]]

+ * [[cōnscrīptiō]]

+ * [[cōnscrīptor]]

+ * [[conscriptum]]

+ * [[cōnscrīptus]]

+ * [[inconscriptus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[scrībō]]

+ * [[dēlectus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}