write
write
v. trans.
P. and V. γρά̆φειν.
Write books, etc.: see compose.
Give an account of in writing: P. συγγράφειν (acc.).
Write poetry: Ar. and P. ποιεῖν.
Inscribe: Ar. and P. ἐπιγρά̆φειν, P. ἀναγράφειν.
Write down: Ar. and P. συγγρά̆φειν, P. and V. γρά̆φειν.
They wrote him down enemy of theirs and their allies: P. ἐχθρὸν αὑτῶν ἀνέγραψαν καὶ τῶν συμμάχων αὐτόν (Dem. 122).
Write in addition: Ar. and P. πᾰρᾰγρά̆φειν, P. προσγράφειν, προσπαραγράφειν.
Write in answer: see answer.Write in or on: P. and V. ἐγγρά̆φειν.
Which (wanderings) you must write on the recording tablets of your mind: V. ἣν (πλάνη) ἐγγράφου σὺ μνήμοσιν δέλτοις φρενῶν (Aesch. P.V. 789; cp. Soph. Phil. 1325).
A tablet with signs written upon it: V. δέλτος ἐγγεγραμμένη συνθήματα (Soph. Trach. 157).
Write underneath: P. ὑπογράφειν (τί τινι).
v. trans.
P. and V. γρά̆φειν.
Write books, etc.: see compose.
Give an account of in writing: P. συγγράφειν (acc.).
Write poetry: Ar. and P. ποιεῖν.
Inscribe: Ar. and P. ἐπιγρά̆φειν, P. ἀναγράφειν.
Write down: Ar. and P. συγγρά̆φειν, P. and V. γρά̆φειν.
They wrote him down enemy of theirs and their allies: P. ἐχθρὸν αὑτῶν ἀνέγραψαν καὶ τῶν συμμάχων αὐτόν (Dem. 122).
Write in addition: Ar. and P. πᾰρᾰγρά̆φειν, P. προσγράφειν, προσπαραγράφειν.
Write in answer: see answer.Write in or on: P. and V. ἐγγρά̆φειν.
Which (wanderings) you must write on the recording tablets of your mind: V. ἣν (πλάνη) ἐγγράφου σὺ μνήμοσιν δέλτοις φρενῶν (Aesch. P.V. 789; cp. Soph. Phil. 1325).
A tablet with signs written upon it: V. δέλτος ἐγγεγραμμένη συνθήματα (Soph. Trach. 157).
Write underneath: P. ὑπογράφειν (τί τινι).
WRITE
scribere (general term): litteras scribere or facere (Plaut.; to form letters): dueere litterarum formas (Ruhnken. of children learning to write): hence to write a good hand or fine hand lepida manu facere litteras or scribere (after Plaut.): to write a bad wretched hand male negligenter exarare litteras [Vid: also HAND]: to write from a copy litterarum ductus sequi (Quint. 10 2 2); versus ad imitationem propositos describere (after Quint. 1 1 35): litteris consignare: litteris mandare: scriptura persequi (to note or put down in writing): in chartam conjicere (to put hastily upon paper): memoriae causa in libellum referre (to put down in a note-book in order to assist the memory): enotare (to note or put down in writing what one has just read or thought of): litteris custodire: memoriae prodere tradere (to commit to writing): conscribere (to compose in writing): To write down with abbreviations to write down in short hand (what another says) aliquid velocissime notis excipere: to write briefly breviter describere exponere complecti: to write fully copiously stilo uberiore explicare: to write in verse versibus describere persequi: well written verbis apte comprehensus et conclusus: to write for one’s livelihood calamo victum quaeritare (after Ter. Andr. 1 1 48): to write a letter scribere or conscribere epistolam (to compose a letter with reference to the contents or substance of the letter; whereas scribere litteras e.g. manu sua refers to the manual act of writing): to write (a letter) to anybody (a) absolutely litteras ad aliquem dare or mittere (☞ but not litteras scribere or simply scribere ad aliquem or alicui): to write fully or at length to anybody litteras dare ad aliquem plurimis verbis scriptas; ad aliquem uberiores litteras mittere; (b) with notice of the contents of the letter litteras mittere (to send a letter to; with an accusative and infinitive when the letter contains only statements or information but with ut and the conjunct when the letter contains a command charge etc.); scribere alicui or ad aliquem (to inform or enjoin by letter; with an accusative and infinitive or with ut and a conjunction according to the nature of the communication as before); aliquem per litteras certiorem faeere de aliqua re (or with an accusative and infinitive to give intelligence of anything by letter): to write concerning anybody or anything scribere de aliquo or de aliqua re; to anybody alicui or ad aliquem (general term) epistolam conscribere de aliqua re; to anybody alicui (if by letter); librum scribere de aliqua re (a book): to write against anybody scribere in or adversus aliquem (general term); librum edere contra aliquem (to publish a book against anybody): to write to one another to correspond by writing litteras dare et accipere: to write back (in reply) litteras rescribere or respondere: to write one’s self as = assume such or such a title or character in writing se scribere aliquem (e.g. se A. Cornelium Cossum consulem scripserit Liv. 4 20 quite at the end); alicui est nomen (with a nominative or dative more rarely a genitive of the name): his name is written with a d *nomen ejus habet litteram d: to read a written reply ex libello respondere (Plin. Ep. 5 6 5): to preach a written sermon etc. de scripto dicere (Cic.) or orationem sermonem ex libello habere (cf. Suet. Oct. 84): to write out perscribere (to write fully and accurately); exscribere; transcribere (to transcribe); transcribere; transferre (to transfer from one book to another).
To compose (a book) (librum) scribere or conscribere; edere (to publish).
ImPROP. Anything is written on anybody’s forehead aliquid ex ore ac fronte alicujus pernoscere potes (after Cic. Fat. 5 10).
scribere (general term): litteras scribere or facere (Plaut.; to form letters): dueere litterarum formas (Ruhnken. of children learning to write): hence to write a good hand or fine hand lepida manu facere litteras or scribere (after Plaut.): to write a bad wretched hand male negligenter exarare litteras [Vid: also HAND]: to write from a copy litterarum ductus sequi (Quint. 10 2 2); versus ad imitationem propositos describere (after Quint. 1 1 35): litteris consignare: litteris mandare: scriptura persequi (to note or put down in writing): in chartam conjicere (to put hastily upon paper): memoriae causa in libellum referre (to put down in a note-book in order to assist the memory): enotare (to note or put down in writing what one has just read or thought of): litteris custodire: memoriae prodere tradere (to commit to writing): conscribere (to compose in writing): To write down with abbreviations to write down in short hand (what another says) aliquid velocissime notis excipere: to write briefly breviter describere exponere complecti: to write fully copiously stilo uberiore explicare: to write in verse versibus describere persequi: well written verbis apte comprehensus et conclusus: to write for one’s livelihood calamo victum quaeritare (after Ter. Andr. 1 1 48): to write a letter scribere or conscribere epistolam (to compose a letter with reference to the contents or substance of the letter; whereas scribere litteras e.g. manu sua refers to the manual act of writing): to write (a letter) to anybody (a) absolutely litteras ad aliquem dare or mittere (☞ but not litteras scribere or simply scribere ad aliquem or alicui): to write fully or at length to anybody litteras dare ad aliquem plurimis verbis scriptas; ad aliquem uberiores litteras mittere; (b) with notice of the contents of the letter litteras mittere (to send a letter to; with an accusative and infinitive when the letter contains only statements or information but with ut and the conjunct when the letter contains a command charge etc.); scribere alicui or ad aliquem (to inform or enjoin by letter; with an accusative and infinitive or with ut and a conjunction according to the nature of the communication as before); aliquem per litteras certiorem faeere de aliqua re (or with an accusative and infinitive to give intelligence of anything by letter): to write concerning anybody or anything scribere de aliquo or de aliqua re; to anybody alicui or ad aliquem (general term) epistolam conscribere de aliqua re; to anybody alicui (if by letter); librum scribere de aliqua re (a book): to write against anybody scribere in or adversus aliquem (general term); librum edere contra aliquem (to publish a book against anybody): to write to one another to correspond by writing litteras dare et accipere: to write back (in reply) litteras rescribere or respondere: to write one’s self as = assume such or such a title or character in writing se scribere aliquem (e.g. se A. Cornelium Cossum consulem scripserit Liv. 4 20 quite at the end); alicui est nomen (with a nominative or dative more rarely a genitive of the name): his name is written with a d *nomen ejus habet litteram d: to read a written reply ex libello respondere (Plin. Ep. 5 6 5): to preach a written sermon etc. de scripto dicere (Cic.) or orationem sermonem ex libello habere (cf. Suet. Oct. 84): to write out perscribere (to write fully and accurately); exscribere; transcribere (to transcribe); transcribere; transferre (to transfer from one book to another).
To compose (a book) (librum) scribere or conscribere; edere (to publish).
ImPROP. Anything is written on anybody’s forehead aliquid ex ore ac fronte alicujus pernoscere potes (after Cic. Fat. 5 10).
write:
1. scrībo, psi, ptum, 3: when letters are written with a pen in a book, quom in libro scribuntur calamo litterae, Pl. Ps. 1, 5, 131: w. this song on the middle column, hoc carmen media scribe columna, Prop. 4, 7, 83: Aufidius was w.ing a Grecian history, Aufidius Graecam scribebat historiam, Cic. Tusc. 5, 38, 112: who could w. worthily of Mars? quis Martem digne scripserit? Hor. Od. 1, 6, 14. a letter carefully written, epistola perdiligenter scripta, Cic. Att. 1, 11, 1: with infin. of information: he w.s that he will come, scribit se affore, Caes. B. G. 5, 48: with relat. clause: w. to me what you are doing, scribe ad me quid agas, Cic. Fam. 7, 12, 2: to w. an order to do, by subj., with or without ut: to w. me word to come, scribere ad me ut venirem, id. Att. 11, 7, 2: he w.s to Labienus to come, scribit Labieno veniat, Caes. B. G. 5, 46. absol., to be an author: he whom no one has excelled in w.ing, ille quo nemo in scribendo praestantior fuit, Cic. Rep. 2, 11, 21.
2. conscrībo (to draw up in w.ing): a book written about his consulship and acts, liber de consulatu et de rebus gestis suis conscriptus, Cic. Brut. 35, 132: pages written in a beautiful hand, tabellae lepida conscriptae manu, Pl. Ps. 1, 1, 28.
3. perscrībo (to w. in full, w. out): he w.s of what had been done, rem gestam perscribit, Caes. B. G. 5, 47: my brother has written out your speech, frater meus tuam orationem perscripsit, Cic. Fam. 5, 4, 2.
4. exscrībo (to copy as an extract): I w. out the inscriptions in the forum, tabulas in foro exscribo, Cic. Verr. 2, 77, 189.
5. transcrībo (to w. from one book into another): the will written into another set of tablets, testamentum in alias tabulas transcriptum, Cic. Clu. 14, 41.
6. descrībo (to copy, or to w. down plainly): Balbus wrote to me that he had written out my fifth book, De Finibus, Balbus scripsit ad me se quintum De Finibus librum descripsisse, Cic. Att. 13, 21, 4: the songs which I have written on the bark of the beech, quae in cortice fagi carmina descripsi, Virg. E. 5, 14.
7. rescrībo (to w. again, w. back): to w. over again and correct, rescribere et corrigere, Suet. Caes. 56: to your morning letter I wrote answer at once, yesterday, antemeridianis tuis litteris heri statim rescripsi, Cic. Att. 13, 23, 1. Phr.: to w. a careless hand, *negligenter exarare litteras (Kr.): to w. a good hand, lepidis literis conscribere, Pl. Ps. 1, 1, 28: I got your letter written in an unsteady hand, accepi tuam epistolam vacillantibus litterulis, Cic. Fam. 16, 15, 2: I wrote these few lines, hoc litterularum exaravi, Cic. Att. 12, 1, 1: I write this at Rome, dabam Romae, Cic.: to w. (publish) against any one, *contra aliquem librum edere: to put thoughts in w.ing, mandare litteris cogitationes, Cic.: to w. down in short hand, notis excipere velocissime, Suet. Tit. 3: there is w. evidence for this, exstat hoc, memoriae traditum est, Cic.
1. scrībo, psi, ptum, 3: when letters are written with a pen in a book, quom in libro scribuntur calamo litterae, Pl. Ps. 1, 5, 131: w. this song on the middle column, hoc carmen media scribe columna, Prop. 4, 7, 83: Aufidius was w.ing a Grecian history, Aufidius Graecam scribebat historiam, Cic. Tusc. 5, 38, 112: who could w. worthily of Mars? quis Martem digne scripserit? Hor. Od. 1, 6, 14. a letter carefully written, epistola perdiligenter scripta, Cic. Att. 1, 11, 1: with infin. of information: he w.s that he will come, scribit se affore, Caes. B. G. 5, 48: with relat. clause: w. to me what you are doing, scribe ad me quid agas, Cic. Fam. 7, 12, 2: to w. an order to do, by subj., with or without ut: to w. me word to come, scribere ad me ut venirem, id. Att. 11, 7, 2: he w.s to Labienus to come, scribit Labieno veniat, Caes. B. G. 5, 46. absol., to be an author: he whom no one has excelled in w.ing, ille quo nemo in scribendo praestantior fuit, Cic. Rep. 2, 11, 21.
2. conscrībo (to draw up in w.ing): a book written about his consulship and acts, liber de consulatu et de rebus gestis suis conscriptus, Cic. Brut. 35, 132: pages written in a beautiful hand, tabellae lepida conscriptae manu, Pl. Ps. 1, 1, 28.
3. perscrībo (to w. in full, w. out): he w.s of what had been done, rem gestam perscribit, Caes. B. G. 5, 47: my brother has written out your speech, frater meus tuam orationem perscripsit, Cic. Fam. 5, 4, 2.
4. exscrībo (to copy as an extract): I w. out the inscriptions in the forum, tabulas in foro exscribo, Cic. Verr. 2, 77, 189.
5. transcrībo (to w. from one book into another): the will written into another set of tablets, testamentum in alias tabulas transcriptum, Cic. Clu. 14, 41.
6. descrībo (to copy, or to w. down plainly): Balbus wrote to me that he had written out my fifth book, De Finibus, Balbus scripsit ad me se quintum De Finibus librum descripsisse, Cic. Att. 13, 21, 4: the songs which I have written on the bark of the beech, quae in cortice fagi carmina descripsi, Virg. E. 5, 14.
7. rescrībo (to w. again, w. back): to w. over again and correct, rescribere et corrigere, Suet. Caes. 56: to your morning letter I wrote answer at once, yesterday, antemeridianis tuis litteris heri statim rescripsi, Cic. Att. 13, 23, 1. Phr.: to w. a careless hand, *negligenter exarare litteras (Kr.): to w. a good hand, lepidis literis conscribere, Pl. Ps. 1, 1, 28: I got your letter written in an unsteady hand, accepi tuam epistolam vacillantibus litterulis, Cic. Fam. 16, 15, 2: I wrote these few lines, hoc litterularum exaravi, Cic. Att. 12, 1, 1: I write this at Rome, dabam Romae, Cic.: to w. (publish) against any one, *contra aliquem librum edere: to put thoughts in w.ing, mandare litteris cogitationes, Cic.: to w. down in short hand, notis excipere velocissime, Suet. Tit. 3: there is w. evidence for this, exstat hoc, memoriae traditum est, Cic.
γράφω
γράφω, γράψω, ἔγραψα, γέγραφα, γέγραμμαι, ἐγράφην, write, draw
write in two ways
εὐριπιδαριστοφανίζω
write in the style of Euripides and Aristophanes
λογοποιέω
to invent stories, to write, compose
προσεπιγράφω
to write on besides
πυξογραφέω
write
σιλλογραφέω
write
ταὐτογραφέω
write in the same way
τερατογραφέω
write of τέρατα
ἀνθηρογραφέω
write in a florid style
ὁλογραφέω
write at full length
ὁμογραφέω
write in the same manner
γράφω, γράψω, ἔγραψα, γέγραφα, γέγραμμαι, ἐγράφην, write, draw
appearing fewer than 50 times
διχογραφέωwrite in two ways
εὐριπιδαριστοφανίζω
write in the style of Euripides and Aristophanes
λογοποιέω
to invent stories, to write, compose
προσεπιγράφω
to write on besides
πυξογραφέω
write
σιλλογραφέω
write
ταὐτογραφέω
write in the same way
τερατογραφέω
write of τέρατα
ἀνθηρογραφέω
write in a florid style
ὁλογραφέω
write at full length
ὁμογραφέω
write in the same manner