scrivere
Italian
Etymology
Inherited from Latin scrībere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈskri.ve.re/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ivere
- Hyphenation: scrì‧ve‧re
Verb
scrìvere (first-person singular present scrìvo, first-person singular past historic scrìssi, past participle scrìtto, auxiliary avére)
- (ambitransitive) to write [auxiliary avere]
- (transitive) to spell (to write the letters that form (a word))
- (transitive) to write down
- (transitive, poetic) to write about
- (transitive, figurative, literary) to remember indelibly
- (transitive, by extension):
- (uncommon) to record
- Synonym: registrare
- (obsolete or literary) to ascribe, to attribute
- Synonyms: ascrivere, attribuire
- (obsolete) to draft
- Synonym: arruolare
- (uncommon) to record
Conjugation
Conjugation of scrìvere (root-stressed -ere; irregular) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Related terms
Further reading
- scrivere in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Neapolitan
Etymology
Inherited from Latin scrībere.
Pronunciation
Verb
scrivere
- 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
- 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