“wrote” is a form of
write
UK [ɹaɪt] · US /ɹəɪt/ verb, noun
Forms writes writing wrote writ written writest wrotest writeth ywriten
- verb (ambitransitive) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate. “The pupil wrote his name on the paper.”
- verb (transitive) To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.). “My uncle writes newspaper articles for The Herald.”
- verb (intransitive) To compose and send written information (to). “Please write to me when you get there.”
- verb (ditransitive) To compose and send (written information or a written message, e.g. a letter) to. “Please write me a letter. Please write a letter to me.”
- verb (ditransitive with relative clause) To convey a fact to someone via writing. “Jimmy wrote me that he needs more money.”
- verb (transitive) To show (information, etc) in written form. “The due day of the homework is written in the syllabus.”
- verb (intransitive) To be an author. “I write for a living.”
- verb (computing, intransitive, with to) To record data mechanically or electronically. “The computer writes to the disk faster than it reads from it.”
- noun The act or style of writing.
- noun (computing) The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk. “How many writes per second can this hard disk handle?”
Synonyms
inscribe scrawl scribble display indicate mark show save sit author pen to post store compose indite publish drop a line spell
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Etymology
From Middle English writen, from Old English wrītan, from Proto-West Germanic *wrītan, from Proto-Germanic *wrītaną (“to carve, write”), from Proto-Indo-European *wrey- (“to rip, tear”).
Cognate with West Frisian write (“to wear by rubbing, rip, tear”), Dutch wrijten (“to argue, quarrel”), Middle Low German wrîten (“to scratch, draw, write”) (> Low German wrieten, rieten (“to tear, split”)), German reißen (“to tear, rip”), Norwegian rita (“to rough-sketch, carve, write”), Swedish rita (“to draw, design, delineate, model”), Icelandic ríta, rita (“to inscribe, sketch, write”), German ritzen (“to carve, scratch”), Proto-Slavic *ryti (“to carve, engrave, dig”), Polish ryć (“to engrave, dig”), Czech rýt (“to engrave, dig”). See also rit and rat.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as, to write the characters called letters; to write figures.
- verb To set down for reading; to express in legible or intelligible characters; to inscribe; as, to write a deed; to write a bill of divorcement; hence, specifically, to set down in an epistle; to communicate by letter.
- verb To form characters, letters, or figures, as representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by written signs.
- verb To be regularly employed or occupied in writing, copying, or accounting; to act as clerk or amanuensis; as, he writes in one of the public offices.
Etymology [OE. writen, AS. writan; originally, to scratch, to score; akin to OS. writan to write, to tear, to wound, D. rijten to tear, to rend, G. reissen, OHG. rizan, Icel. rita to write, Goth. writs a stroke, dash, letter. Cf. Race tribe, lineage.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “write”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details