"writen" meaning in Middle English

See writen in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ˈwriːtən/
Etymology: From Old English wrītan. Cognate to Middle Low German writen and Middle High German rīzen. Etymology templates: {{dercat|enm|gmw-pro|gem-pro|inh=2}}, {{inh|enm|ang|wrītan}} Old English wrītan, {{cog|gml|writen}} Middle Low German writen, {{cog|gmh|rīzen}} Middle High German rīzen Head templates: {{head|enm|verb|singular simple past|wroot|plural simple past|wroten}} writen (singular simple past wroot, plural simple past wroten) Inflection templates: {{enm-conj-st|writ|wrot|3a=writ|class=1|p_part2=wreten|p_part3=ywrite|y=0}} Forms: wroot [past, singular], wroten [past, plural], strong [table-tags], writen [infinitive], to writen [infinitive], write [infinitive], write [first-person, present, singular], wrot [first-person, past, singular], writest [present, second-person, singular], wrote [past, second-person, singular], write [past, second-person, singular], wrot [past, second-person, singular], writeth [present, singular, third-person], wrot [past, singular, third-person], write [present, singular, subjunctive], wrote [past, singular, subjunctive], write [past, singular, subjunctive], write [imperative, present, singular], - [imperative, past, singular], writen [plural, present], write [plural, present], wroten [past, plural], wrote [past, plural], writen [past, plural], write [past, plural], writeth [imperative, plural, present], write [imperative, plural, present], - [imperative, past, plural], writynge [participle, present], writende [participle, present], writen [participle, past], wreten [participle, past], ywrite [participle, past]
  1. To write (draw letters on paper to form words); note the following common specialised senses:
    To record in writing; to produce or add to a written document.
    Categories (topical): Writing
    Sense id: en-writen-enm-verb-RfnAAAF2 Disambiguation of Writing: 24 13 17 2 6 8 2 3 2 4 18 Categories (other): Middle Low German entries with incorrect language header, Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English entries with language name categories using raw markup, Middle English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of Middle Low German entries with incorrect language header: 5 6 23 6 14 2 15 9 1 2 3 4 6 0 3 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 31 5 20 3 17 10 1 2 3 3 5 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 31 5 19 3 16 10 1 2 3 3 6 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 32 6 20 3 16 7 2 2 4 3 6
  2. To write (draw letters on paper to form words); note the following common specialised senses:
    To act as a notary or a scribe; to transcribe into or note with writing.
    Sense id: en-writen-enm-verb-cOn8Xwor
  3. To write (draw letters on paper to form words); note the following common specialised senses:
    To write about; to cover, discuss, or report on in writing.
    Sense id: en-writen-enm-verb-UZshwBM1
  4. To write (draw letters on paper to form words); note the following common specialised senses:
    To create a written or literary work; to author.
    Sense id: en-writen-enm-verb-rXDz6GXR
  5. To write (draw letters on paper to form words); note the following common specialised senses:
    To send a letter or document one wrote off.
    Sense id: en-writen-enm-verb-OcEMKATN
  6. To write (draw letters on paper to form words); note the following common specialised senses:
    To convert into another language; to make a translation of.
    Sense id: en-writen-enm-verb-uU~csTi7
  7. To write (draw letters on paper to form words); note the following common specialised senses:
    Sense id: en-writen-enm-verb-IbTUhLLV
  8. To engrave, carve, or scratch
    Sense id: en-writen-enm-verb-vpoqYMYa
  9. To form words or letters via means other than drawing or engraving.
    Sense id: en-writen-enm-verb-Tv3gipKl
  10. (rare) To make one's signature or identifying symbol. Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-writen-enm-verb-M9R-HONm
  11. (rare) To represent via means other than writing. Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-writen-enm-verb-OiltAPhW
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: wryten, write Related terms: writer

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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        "To write (draw letters on paper to form words); note the following common specialised senses:",
        "To record in writing; to produce or add to a written document."
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        "To act as a notary or a scribe; to transcribe into or note with writing."
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        [
          "note",
          "note"
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      ]
    },
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        "To write (draw letters on paper to form words); note the following common specialised senses:",
        "To write about; to cover, discuss, or report on in writing."
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          "report"
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        "To write (draw letters on paper to form words); note the following common specialised senses:",
        "To create a written or literary work; to author."
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        "To write (draw letters on paper to form words); note the following common specialised senses:",
        "To send a letter or document one wrote off."
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        "To write (draw letters on paper to form words); note the following common specialised senses:",
        "To convert into another language; to make a translation of."
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          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41",
          "text": "And thei sauouriden so his loore that thei wroten it bisili and enforsiden hem to rulen hem theraftir… Maister Ion Aston taughte and wroot acordingli and ful bisili, where and whanne and to whom he myghte, and he vsid it himsilf, I gesse, right perfyghtli vnto his lyues eende.”",
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        "To write (draw letters on paper to form words); note the following common specialised senses:",
        "To write (draw letters on paper to form words); note the following common specialised senses"
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        "To write (draw letters on paper to form words); note the following common specialised senses:"
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          "carve"
        ],
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          "scratch"
        ]
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        "To form words or letters via means other than drawing or engraving."
      ],
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          "letters"
        ]
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        "To make one's signature or identifying symbol."
      ],
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          "signature"
        ]
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        "(rare) To make one's signature or identifying symbol."
      ],
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      ]
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        "To represent via means other than writing."
      ],
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        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) To represent via means other than writing."
      ],
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    }
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        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "writeth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wrot",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "write",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wrote",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "write",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "write",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "writen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "write",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wroten",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wrote",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "writen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "write",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "writeth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "write",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "writynge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "writende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "writen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wreten",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ywrite",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "verb",
        "3": "singular simple past",
        "4": "wroot",
        "5": "plural simple past",
        "6": "wroten"
      },
      "expansion": "writen (singular simple past wroot, plural simple past wroten)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "writ",
        "2": "wrot",
        "3a": "writ",
        "class": "1",
        "p_part2": "wreten",
        "p_part3": "ywrite",
        "y": "0"
      },
      "name": "enm-conj-st"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "writer"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Requests for translations of Middle English quotations"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To write (draw letters on paper to form words); note the following common specialised senses:",
        "To record in writing; to produce or add to a written document."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "write",
          "write#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Requests for translations of Middle English quotations"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To write (draw letters on paper to form words); note the following common specialised senses:",
        "To act as a notary or a scribe; to transcribe into or note with writing."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "write",
          "write#English"
        ],
        [
          "notary",
          "notary"
        ],
        [
          "transcribe",
          "transcribe"
        ],
        [
          "note",
          "note"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Requests for translations of Middle English quotations"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To write (draw letters on paper to form words); note the following common specialised senses:",
        "To write about; to cover, discuss, or report on in writing."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "write",
          "write#English"
        ],
        [
          "report",
          "report"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Requests for translations of Middle English quotations"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To write (draw letters on paper to form words); note the following common specialised senses:",
        "To create a written or literary work; to author."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "write",
          "write#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Requests for translations of Middle English quotations"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To write (draw letters on paper to form words); note the following common specialised senses:",
        "To send a letter or document one wrote off."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "write",
          "write#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Requests for translations of Middle English quotations"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To write (draw letters on paper to form words); note the following common specialised senses:",
        "To convert into another language; to make a translation of."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "write",
          "write#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Requests for translations of Middle English quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41",
          "text": "And thei sauouriden so his loore that thei wroten it bisili and enforsiden hem to rulen hem theraftir… Maister Ion Aston taughte and wroot acordingli and ful bisili, where and whanne and to whom he myghte, and he vsid it himsilf, I gesse, right perfyghtli vnto his lyues eende.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To write (draw letters on paper to form words); note the following common specialised senses:",
        "To write (draw letters on paper to form words); note the following common specialised senses"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "write",
          "write#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "To write (draw letters on paper to form words); note the following common specialised senses:"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To engrave, carve, or scratch"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "engrave",
          "engrave#English"
        ],
        [
          "carve",
          "carve"
        ],
        [
          "scratch",
          "scratch"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To form words or letters via means other than drawing or engraving."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "form",
          "form"
        ],
        [
          "words",
          "words"
        ],
        [
          "letters",
          "letters"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make one's signature or identifying symbol."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "signature",
          "signature"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) To make one's signature or identifying symbol."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To represent via means other than writing."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "represent",
          "represent"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) To represent via means other than writing."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwriːtən/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "wryten"
    },
    {
      "word": "write"
    }
  ],
  "word": "writen"
}

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