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Translation

to sign (a document)

Word origin

An Esperanto compound: sub ('under') plus skribi ('to write', from Latin scribere). To sign is literally to write beneath the text, exactly the picture inside Latin subscribere and English subscribe.

Origin
Esperanto, from Latin scribere
Root
sub + skribi
English cognates
subscribe, scribe, script

Examples

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Please sign this paper.

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He signed the letter and sent it.

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She read the paper and then signed it.

Decode it and it teaches itself: + , write underneath. The noun is subskribo (a signature). Note that subscribing to a magazine is a different verb, .

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This word is part of lesson 23.