describo
Galician
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editdescribo
Latin
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edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /deːsˈkriː.boː/, [d̪eːs̠ˈkriːboː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /desˈkri.bo/, [d̪esˈkriːbo]
Verb
editdēscrībō (present infinitive dēscrībere, perfect active dēscrīpsī, supine dēscrīptum); third conjugation
- to copy off or transcribe something from the original, write down, write out
- to describe in painting or writing, draw, draw out, sketch off
- (figuratively) to represent, delineate, describe
- (figuratively) to mark off, establish, define, divide or distribute into parts
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edit- “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
- describo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], 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
- to draw geometrical figures: formas (not figuras) geometricas describere
- describo in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Spanish
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editdescribo
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