perscribo Latin · revision 31672

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la scrībō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''perscrībō''' (present infinitive perscrībere, perfect active perscrīpsī, supine perscrīptum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|per-|scrībō|t2=to write]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) De Vaan traces ⟨scrībō⟩ to [[itc-pro|*skreifō|alt=*skreif-e/o-|t=to carve]] and [[ine-pro|*skreybʰ-|alt=*skreibʰ-e/o-|t=to carve]], cognate with [[osc|scriftas|t=written]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest example is Plautus' ''Truculentus'', of ledgers in which interest payments were entered.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to write out in full, to copy out, as Cicero's request for the sayings of the mime actors, and to put a law or work into writing: Cicero speaks of the ten men who wrote the Twelve Tables.^(OLD 2012) It is also to write a detailed record, as of the historians who tried to record the deeds of the Romans in Asellio, and to enter transactions in public or account books.^(OLD 2012) In finance it is to write a draft for a sum instead of paying cash.^(OLD 2012) Cicero's freedman Tiro uses it of writing a word in full rather than abbreviated.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “write down, notify, relate in writing, register”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of ledger entries.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of writing out laws and copying.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian of finishing a work.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To write out in full, [[m|en|copy]] out.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To put into writing; to finish writing.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To write a detailed account of; to enter in official or account books, [[m|en|register]].^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To write a draft for a sum.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To write a word in full, without abbreviation.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[perscrīptiō]]

+ * [[perscriptōr]]

+ * [[perscriptūra]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[scrībō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}