rescribo Latin · revision 31580

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=190–159 BC, Terence|origins=la scrībō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''rescrībō''' (present infinitive rescrībere, perfect active rescrīpsī, supine rescrīptum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ The Vindolanda tablets spell it ''resscr-''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|re-|scrībō|t2=to write]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) 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==

+ The OLD's earliest example is from Terence, in the bookkeeping sense: a man is told to go to the forum and have the money paid back to him by a written transfer.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Cicero it is above all to write back, answer a letter: he answered Atticus' morning letter at once and now replies to the evening one.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Under the Empire it is the emperor's written answer to a request for a ruling, a rescript, as Trajan's to Pliny, and a jurist's written opinion on a point of law.^(OLD 2012) It is also to write a reply in refutation: Tacitus says Caesar answered Cicero's praise of Cato with a speech written as if before judges.^(OLD 2012) Pliny the Younger uses it of rewriting faulty passages, and Livy and Caesar of enrolling troops anew or transferring them to another unit.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin has it for write again, write back.^(Stelten 1995) English [[m|en|rescribe]] (mid-15th century), now archaic, is from it.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of repaying money by written transfer.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of answering letters.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–AD 17 – Livy of enrolling new legions.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of a written refutation.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 223 AD – Ulpian of imperial rescripts.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To write back, [[m|en|reply]] in writing.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(law)'' Of the emperor, to give a written ruling, a [[m|en|rescript]]; of a jurist, to give a written opinion.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To write in refutation.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To rewrite, write again.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(bookkeeping)'' To pay back by written transfer, credit.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(military)'' To enrol troops in place of others; to transfer to another unit.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[rescriptiō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[scrībō]]

+ * [[rescrīptum]]

+ * [[en|rescribe]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}