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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 rita (“to cut, scratch, 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.

A painting of a man writing.

write (third-person singular simple present writes, present participle writing, simple past wrote or (archaic) writ, past participle written or (archaic) writ or (obsolete) ywriten)

  1. (ambitransitive) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.

    The pupil wrote his name on the paper.

    Your son has been writing on the wall.

  2. (transitive) To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).

    My uncle writes newspaper articles for The Herald.

  3. (transitive) To send written information to.

    (UK) Please write to me when you get there.

    (US) Please write me when you get there.

  4. (transitive) To show (information, etc) in written form.

    The due day of the homework is written in the syllabus.

  5. (ditransitive with relative clause) To convey a fact to someone via writing.

    Jimmy wrote me that he needs more money.

  6. (intransitive) To be an author.

    I write for a living.

  7. (computing, intransitive, with to) To record data mechanically or electronically.
    The computer writes to the disk faster than it reads from it.
  8. (transitive, South Africa, Canada, of an exam, a document, etc.) To fill in, to complete using words.

    I was very anxious to know my score after I wrote the test.

  9. To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.

    truth written on the heart

  10. To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
  11. (finance) To sell (an option or other derivative).
  12. (chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) To paint a religious icon or a pysanka egg.

to form letters, etc.

to be the author of

record (data)

Translations to be checked

write (plural writes)

  1. The act or style of writing.
  2. (computing) The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.

    How many writes per second can this hard disk handle?

write

  1. alternative form of writen

wrīte

  1. inflection of wrītan:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. singular present subjunctive

write

  1. inflection of wrītan:
    1. second-person singular preterite indicative
    2. singular preterite subjunctive

From Old Frisian wrīta, from Proto-West Germanic *wrītan. Cognate with English write, Dutch wrijten.

write

  1. to rip, to tear
  2. to be painful, to sting

“write”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

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