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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