wroten

See also: Wroten

English

Verb

wroten

1. (archaic) past participle of write; written.
   • 1843, John Hooper, Samuel Carr, Early Writings of John Hooper - Page 169

     ... I have ones agayne wroten to my cosen Richard Hyll, ...

   • 1872, John Payne Collier, Walter Calverley Trevelyan, Charles Edward Trevelyan, Trevelyan Papers ... - Page 74

     For the scripture was wroten to lead us unto God, and unto repentance of ill. It was wroten to teach us God and all godliness, and not to move such ...

Anagrams

• Towner, towner

Middle English

Etymology 1

From wroot +‎ -en (verbal plural suffix).

Alternative forms

• wrooten

Verb

wroten

2. plural past indicative of writen

Etymology 2

From Old English wrōtan, from Proto-Germanic *wrōtaną.

Alternative forms

• wrote, wrooten, wrotyn

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwroːtən/

Verb

wroten

2. To use one's nose or snout to rummage or root.
3. To extract with one's nose or snout; to have rooted.
4. To remove soil, earth, or ground; to dig up.
5. (rare) To crawl or slither as a worm.
6. (rare) To cause irritation or annoyance.
7. (rare) To till; to move soil for agriculture.

Conjugation

Conjugation of wroten (weak in -ed/-te)

infinitive	(to) wroten, wrote
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	wrote	wroted, wrot
2nd-person singular	wrotest	wrotedest, wrottest
3rd-person singular	wroteth	wroted, wrot
subjunctive singular	wrote
imperative singular		—
plural1	wroten, wrote	wroteden, wrotede, wrotten, wrotte
imperative plural	wroteth, wrote	—
participles	wrotynge, wrotende	wroted, wrot, ywroted, ywrot

¹Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Related terms

• wrot
• wrotynge

Descendants

• English: root
• Scots: wrutt, wort, rute, wirt, ruit

References

• “wrọ̄ten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-16.