Italian edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin scrībere.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈskri.ve.re/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ivere
  • Hyphenation: scrì‧ve‧re

Verb edit

scrìvere (first-person singular present scrìvo, first-person singular past historic scrìssi, past participle scrìtto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to write [auxiliary avere]
  2. (transitive) to spell (to write the letters that form (a word))
  3. (transitive) to write down
  4. (transitive, poetic) to write about
  5. (transitive, figurative, literary) to remember indelibly
  6. (transitive, by extension):
    1. (uncommon) to record
      Synonym: registrare
    2. (obsolete or literary) to ascribe, to attribute
      Synonyms: ascrivere, attribuire
    3. (obsolete) to draft
      Synonym: arruolare

Conjugation edit

Related terms edit

Further reading edit

  • scrivere in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Neapolitan edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin scrībere.

Pronunciation edit

  • (Naples) IPA(key): [ˈʃkriːvərə]
  • (numerous dialects) IPA(key): [ˈʃkriːvə], [ˈskriːvə]

Verb edit

scrivere

  1. write
    Quase tutte 'e sustantive napulitane se scrivono cu 'a lettera piccerella, eccetto 'e nomme 'e perzona e 'e puoste.
    Almost all the nouns in Neapolitan are written with small letters, except the names of persons and places.

References edit

  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1662: “scrivere; scritto” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it