prescrever
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed (modeled on escrever), from Latin praescrībere.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: pres‧cre‧ver
Verb edit
prescrever (first-person singular present prescrevo, first-person singular preterite prescrevi, past participle prescrito)
- (healthcare, transitive) to prescribe (to declare that a drug or treatment should be used by a patient)
- (transitive) to prescribe (to specify a procedure or practice as correct or required)
- Antonym: proscrever
- (criminal law, of a crime, intransitive) to become unprosecutable after a time limit, due to a statute of limitations
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of prescrever (irregular) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)