describo
Latin
Etymology
From dē- + scrībō (“write”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /deːsˈkriː.boː/, [d̪eːs̠ˈkriːboː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /desˈkri.bo/, [d̪esˈkriːbo]
Verb
dēscrībō (present infinitive dēscrībere, perfect active dēscrīpsī, supine dēscrīptum); third conjugation
- 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.
Conjugation
| Conjugation of dēscrībō (third conjugation) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | dēscrībō | dēscrībis | dēscrībit | dēscrībimus | dēscrībitis | dēscrībunt |
| imperfect | dēscrībēbam | dēscrībēbās | dēscrībēbat | dēscrībēbāmus | dēscrībēbātis | dēscrībēbant | |
| future | dēscrībam | dēscrībēs | dēscrībet | dēscrībēmus | dēscrībētis | dēscrībent | |
| perfect | dēscrīpsī | dēscrīpsistī | dēscrīpsit | dēscrīpsimus | dēscrīpsistis | dēscrīpsērunt, dēscrīpsēre | |
| pluperfect | dēscrīpseram | dēscrīpserās | dēscrīpserat | dēscrīpserāmus | dēscrīpserātis | dēscrīpserant | |
| future perfect | dēscrīpserō | dēscrīpseris | dēscrīpserit | dēscrīpserimus | dēscrīpseritis | dēscrīpserint | |
| passive | present | dēscrībor | dēscrīberis, dēscrībere | dēscrībitur | dēscrībimur | dēscrībiminī | dēscrībuntur |
| imperfect | dēscrībēbar | dēscrībēbāris, dēscrībēbāre | dēscrībēbātur | dēscrībēbāmur | dēscrībēbāminī | dēscrībēbantur | |
| future | dēscrībar | dēscrībēris, dēscrībēre | dēscrībētur | dēscrībēmur | dēscrībēminī | dēscrībentur | |
| perfect | dēscrīptus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | dēscrīptus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
| future perfect | dēscrīptus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | dēscrībam | dēscrībās | dēscrībat | dēscrībāmus | dēscrībātis | dēscrībant |
| imperfect | dēscrīberem | dēscrīberēs | dēscrīberet | dēscrīberēmus | dēscrīberētis | dēscrīberent | |
| perfect | dēscrīpserim | dēscrīpserīs | dēscrīpserit | dēscrīpserīmus | dēscrīpserītis | dēscrīpserint | |
| pluperfect | dēscrīpsissem | dēscrīpsissēs | dēscrīpsisset | dēscrīpsissēmus | dēscrīpsissētis | dēscrīpsissent | |
| passive | present | dēscrībar | dēscrībāris, dēscrībāre | dēscrībātur | dēscrībāmur | dēscrībāminī | dēscrībantur |
| imperfect | dēscrīberer | dēscrīberēris, dēscrīberēre | dēscrīberētur | dēscrīberēmur | dēscrīberēminī | dēscrīberentur | |
| perfect | dēscrīptus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | dēscrīptus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | dēscrībe | — | — | dēscrībite | — |
| future | — | dēscrībitō | dēscrībitō | — | dēscrībitōte | dēscrībuntō | |
| passive | present | — | dēscrībere | — | — | dēscrībiminī | — |
| future | — | dēscrībitor | dēscrībitor | — | — | dēscrībuntor | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | dēscrībere | dēscrīpsisse | dēscrīptūrum esse | dēscrībī | dēscrīptum esse | dēscrīptum īrī | |
| participles | dēscrībēns | — | dēscrīptūrus | — | dēscrīptus | dēscrībendus, dēscrībundus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| dēscrībendī | dēscrībendō | dēscrībendum | dēscrībendō | dēscrīptum | dēscrīptū | ||
Derived terms
- dēscrīptiō
- dēscrīptor
- dēscrīptus
Related terms
Related terms
- āscrībō
- circumscrībō
- cōnscrībō
- contrāscrībō
- dīscrībō
- exscrībō
- īnscrībō
- interscrībō
- perscrībō
- postscrībō
- praescrībō
- prōscrībō
- rescrībō
- scrībō
- subscrībō
- superscrībō
- trānscrībō
Descendants
- Catalan: descriure
- → English: describe
- Italian: descrivere
- Old French: descrivre
- French: décrire
- Portuguese: descrever
- Sicilian: discrìviri
- Spanish: describir
References
- “describo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “describo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- describo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to draw geometrical figures: formas (not figuras) geometricas describere
- to allude to a person or thing (not alludere): describere aliquem (Cael. 20. 50)
- to give the state a constitution: civitati leges, iudicia, iura describere
- to draw geometrical figures: formas (not figuras) geometricas describere
- describo in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Spanish
Verb
describo
- first-person singular present indicative of describir