Latin

Verb

dēscrībō ‎(present infinitive dēscrībere, perfect active dēscrīpsī, supine dēscrīptum); third conjugation

1. I copy off or transcribe something from the original, write down, write out.
2. I describe in painting or writing, draw, draw out, sketch off.
3. (figuratively) I represent, delineate, describe.
4. (figuratively) I mark off, establish, define, divide or distribute into parts.

Inflection

Derived terms

• dēscrīptiō
• dēscrīptor
• dēscrīptus

Related terms

Descendants

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “describo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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
    
• 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

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of describir.