DictionaryRoot: scribere
Latin
scribere
write
Forms
- scrib-
- script- — Latin stem of the form meaning ‘written.’
Origin
Reconstructed Proto-Indo-European *skribh-, ‘cut; scratch.’
Note
The same root links writing with engraving.
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verb
inscribe
To draw a geometric figure inside another so that it touches the outer figure's boundary.
Etymology
Latin inscribere means to write or mark in. Geometry applies that action to drawing a figure within another so that its boundary meets the enclosing figure.
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