inscribo Latin · revision 31376

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''īnscrībō''' (present infinitive īnscrībere, perfect active īnscrīpsī, supine īnscrīptum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Inscriptions also spell it ''iscr-''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|in-|t=in, on]] and [[m|la|scrībō|t=to write]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Etymonline) De Vaan derives ⟨scrībō⟩ from [[itc-pro|*skreif-e/o-|t=to carve]] and [[ine-pro|*skreibʰ-e/o-|t=to carve]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has “he advertises the house for sale with these letters” in the ''Trinummus''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to put an inscription on something, as Cicero's statues that Verres ordered set up and inscribed, to advertise for sale, to sign a work with a name, as Livy's speech inscribed with the name of Africanus, and to brand or tattoo, as Pliny the Elder's branded faces.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) It is to address a letter to someone, as Cicero's letter addressed to his father.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is to write a notice or title on something, as Tibullus' stone with letters cut in it, and to entitle a book, as in Varro, or give oneself a name, as in Cicero.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) With a dative it is to record someone as owner or as cause, as Ovid's “my right hand must be named as the cause of your death”, and to assign or attribute.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “write over, inscribe”.^(Stelten 1995) English ''inscribe'', in the 1550s, is “to write on or in” something lasting.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a house advertised for sale.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of the title of a book.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of inscribed statues and an addressed letter.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of naming the cause of a death.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1550s – Borrowed into English as [[m|en|inscribe]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|inscribe|alt=inscribe]], put an inscription on; to advertise (for sale); to sign; to [[m|en|brand]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To address (a letter); to dedicate.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To write (a notice, title) on.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To entitle (a book); to give (a name).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To record as; to [[m|en|attribute|alt=attribute]], assign.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[īnscrīptiō]]

+ * [[inscriptor]]

+ * [[inscriptūra]]

+ * [[īnscrīptum]]

+ * [[īnscrīptus]]

+ * [[subīnscrībō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ascrībō]]

+ * [[circumscrībō]]

+ * [[cōnscrībō]]

+ * [[dēscrībō]]

+ * [[discrībō]]

+ * [[exscrībō]]

+ * [[perscrībō]]

+ * [[postscrībō]]

+ * [[praescrībō]]

+ * [[prōscrībō]]

+ * [[scrībō]]

+ * [[en|inscribe]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}