“write” in Latin

scribere (general term): litteras scribere or facere (Plaut.; to form letters): dueere litterarum formas (Ruhnken., of children learning to write): hence, to write a good hand, or fine hand, lepida manu facere litteras or scribere (after Plaut.): to write a bad, wretched hand, male, negligenter exarare litteras [Vid: also, HAND]: to write from a copy, litterarum ductus sequi (Quint., 10, 2, 2); versus ad imitationem propositos describere (after Quint., 1, 1, 35): litteris consignare: litteris mandare: scriptura, persequi (to note or put down in writing): in chartam conjicere (to put hastily upon paper): memoriae causa in libellum referre (to put down in a note-book, in order to assist the memory): enotare (to note or put down in writing what one has just read or thought of): litteris custodire: memoriae prodere, tradere (to commit to writing): conscribere (to compose in writing): To write down with abbreviations, to write down in short hand (what another says), aliquid velocissime notis excipere: to write briefly, breviter describere, exponere, complecti: to write fully, copiously, stilo uberiore explicare: to write in verse, versibus describere, persequi: well written, verbis apte comprehensus et conclusus: to write for one’s livelihood, calamo victum quaeritare (after Ter., Andr., 1, 1, 48): to write a letter, scribere or conscribere epistolam (to compose a letter, with reference to the contents or substance of the letter; whereas scribere litteras, e.g., manu sua, refers to the manual act of writing): to write (a letter) to anybody, (a) absolutely, litteras ad aliquem dare or mittere (☞ but not litteras scribere, or simply scribere, ad aliquem or alicui): to write fully, or at length, to anybody, litteras dare ad aliquem plurimis verbis scriptas; ad aliquem uberiores litteras mittere; (b) with notice of the contents of the letter, litteras mittere (to send a letter to; with an accusative and infinitive when the letter contains only statements or information, but with ut and the conjunct, when the letter contains a command, charge, etc.); scribere alicui or ad aliquem (to inform or enjoin by letter; with an accusative and infinitive, or with ut and a conjunction, according to the nature of the communication, as before); aliquem per litteras certiorem faeere de aliqua re (or with an accusative and infinitive, to give intelligence of anything by letter): to write concerning anybody or anything, scribere de aliquo or de aliqua re; to anybody, alicui or ad aliquem (general term) epistolam conscribere de aliqua re; to anybody, alicui (if by letter); librum scribere de aliqua re (a book): to write against anybody, scribere in or adversus aliquem (general term); librum edere contra aliquem (to publish a book against anybody): to write to one another, to correspond by writing, litteras dare et accipere: to write back (in reply), litteras rescribere or respondere: to write one’s self as = assume such or such a title or character in writing, se scribere aliquem (e.g., se A. Cornelium Cossum consulem scripserit, Liv., 4, 20, quite at the end); alicui est nomen (with a nominative or dative, more rarely a genitive, of the name): his name is written with a d, *nomen ejus habet litteram d: to read a written reply, ex libello respondere (Plin., Ep., 5, 6, 5): to preach a written sermon, etc., de scripto dicere (Cic.), or orationem, sermonem ex libello habere (cf., Suet., Oct., 84): to write out, perscribere (to write fully and accurately); exscribere; transcribere (to transcribe); transcribere; transferre (to transfer from one book to another).

To compose (a book), (librum) scribere or conscribere; edere (to publish).

ImPROP. Anything is written on anybody’s forehead, aliquid ex ore ac fronte alicujus pernoscere potes (after Cic., Fat., 5, 10).