describo
Latin
verb
Definitions
- I copy off or transcribe something from the original, write down, write out.
- I describe in painting or writing, draw, draw out, sketch off.
- (figuratively) I represent, delineate, describe.
- (figuratively) I mark off, establish, define, divide or distribute into parts.
Etymology
Affix from Latin scrībō (write, I write, recruiter).
Origin
Latin
scrībō
Gloss
write, I write, recruiter
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
書
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Scribonius Latin
- ascribo Latin
- circumscribo Latin
- conscribo Latin
- contrascribo Latin
- discribo Latin
- inscribo Latin
- postscribo Latin
- proscribo Latin
- scriba Latin
- scribillo Latin
- scriptilis Latin
- scriptio Latin
- scriptito Latin
- scriptura Latin
- scripturio Latin
- scrībō Latin
- superscribo Latin
- transcribo Latin
- *skreybʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- descrever Portuguese
- redescrever Portuguese
- *skrībaną Proto-Germanic
- sċrīfan Old English
- skript Czech
- skribi Esperanto
- skrif Icelandic
- scríbaid Old Irish
- shkruaj Albanian
- *skrīban gmw-pro
- *skreiβō Proto-Italic
- scrieve Scots
- skrifa Cornish
- *śkrɔ̄n Proto-Albanian
- scrivì Neapolitan