What is the Latin word for subscribe?

The usual Latin words for “subscribe” are subscrībō, epistola. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

English → Latin

“subscribe” in Latin

subscrībōto write underneath or below, append; to sign, subscribe one's name; to set down, note down, record epistolaa letter, epistle; a written imperial decree

The English word subscribe itself goes back to Latin scrībō, through subscrībō.

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

subscribe

subscribere, with an accusative or dative (PROP., to ratify by a signature; hence figuratively with a dative only, to approve, general term): aliquid subnotare (to sign one’s name at the foot of anything): nomen suum notare alicui rei (e.g., epistolae): nomen subsignare; nomen profiteri (to add one’s name to a subscription list). To subscribe one’s name, nomen subscribere, also simply subscribere; nomen subnotare: to subscribe for a book, libri emptorem se profiteri, (nominis subscriptione).

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for subscribe?: The usual Latin words for “subscribe” are subscrībō, epistola. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.