transcribo Latin · revision 34477

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=86/82 BC, Rhetorica ad Herennium|origins=la scrībō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''trānscrībō''' (present infinitive trānscrībere, perfect active trānscrīpsī, supine trānscrīptum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''transscrībō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|trāns-|scrībō|t1=across, over|t2=to write]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|scrībō]] to [[itc-pro|*skreif-e/o-|t=to carve]] and [[ine-pro|*skreibh-e/o-|t=to carve]], with the Italic cognates [[osc|scriftas|t=written]] and [[xum|screhto|t=written]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first example is in the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'',^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) which speaks of copying out plays with one's own hand (''si vestra manu fabulas … transcripsissetis'').^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its basic sense is to copy written matter from one book or tablet to another: Cicero speaks of a will copied into other tablets, Pliny the Elder of authors copied out word for word, and Pliny the Younger of a book copied in a thousand copies.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero also uses it of making a false copy, forging public records.^(OLD 2012) From copying it came to mean transferring a name to another roll or register, enrolling in another community or unit, as in Livy and Virgil,^(OLD 2012) and transferring an item in an account to someone else, as Livy says of debts made over to allies who were not bound by the laws.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) It became a legal term for making property over to someone,^(Georges 1913) and the poets use it freely of handing something on: Ovid asks whether part of a life can be transferred to another.^(OLD 2012) In Ecclesiastical Latin it means to write over, transfer, copy, forge, alter or assign.^(Stelten 1995) English borrowed [[m|en|transcribe]] from it in the 1550s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 86/82 BC – The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' speaks of copying out plays.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of copying a will and of forging public records.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of transferring names to another register and debts to other persons.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of enrolling people in a city.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1550s – English borrows it as [[m|en|transcribe]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To copy out written matter from one book or tablet to another, [[m|en|transcribe]]; to copy a picture.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To make a false copy of, [[m|en|forge]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To transfer to another roll or register; to [[m|en|enrol]] in another community or unit.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # To transfer an item in an account, make over;^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) ''(law)'' to [[m|en|convey]] property to someone.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(figurative)'' To hand over, transfer something to someone.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[transcriptīcius]]

+ * [[transcriptiō]]

+ * [[trānscrīptus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|transcribe]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}