The root scrib
scrib means write. It comes from Latin scribere.
It also appears as script — the same root wearing a different vowel, which is why the words below do not all look alike.
7 words built on scrib
- Ascribeverb
attribute or credit to
- Circumscribedverb
draw a line around
- Conscriptnoun
someone who is drafted into military service
- Nondescriptadjective
lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting
- Prescribeverb
issue commands or orders for
- Proscribeverb
command against
- Transcribeverb
rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended