exscribo Latin · revision 36005

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɛks(ː)kriː.boː]^(Wiktionary)

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''exscrībō''' (present infinitive exscrībere, perfect active exscrīpsī, supine exscrīptum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Also spelled ''excrībō''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

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

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and the TLL record it from Plautus on;^(de Vaan 2008)^(TLL) in the prologue of the ''Rudens'' it is used of names written down on tablets.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Varro speaks of many precepts copied from the books of Mago, and Cicero of copying out account books in the forum before a large crowd.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) Livy uses it of sacred rites written out and sealed, and Columella of vessels listed in writing.^(Georges 1913) Gellius copied two lines from a comedy of Plautus.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ Pliny the Younger uses it of copying portraits by painting, and figuratively of a daughter who reproduced her father in a remarkable likeness.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The grammarian Scaurus, following Varro, says that those who copy accounts “write them out” (''exscrībunt'') rather than describe them.^(TLL) Medieval writers used it of excerpting, writing down, describing and noting, and in a deponent form meaning “to name”.^(MLW) English borrowed it as [[m|en|exscribe]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of names written down.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of precepts copied from Mago.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of copying account books.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius uses it of copying lines of Plautus.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

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

+ # To write down, [[m|en|record]] (names or items).^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # To copy (a picture) by drawing.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # (figurative) To take after, [[m|en|resemble]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' To [[m|en|excerpt]]; to describe.^(MLW)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[scrībō]]

+ * [[dēscrībō]]

+ * [[trānscrībō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}