conscriptus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of conscrībō.

Participle

cōnscrīptus (feminine cōnscrīpta, neuter cōnscrīptum); first/second-declension participle

1. enrolled, enlisted
2. composed
   • 412 CE – 426 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, City of God 15.8:

     Sed pertinuit ad Deum, quo ista inspirante conscripta sunt, has duas societates suis diuersis generationibus primitus digerere atque distinguere […]

     But it suited the purpose of God, by whose inspiration these histories were composed, to arrange and distinguish from the first these two societies in their several generations […]

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	cōnscrīptus	cōnscrīpta	cōnscrīptum		cōnscrīptī	cōnscrīptae	cōnscrīpta
genitive	cōnscrīptī	cōnscrīptae	cōnscrīptī		cōnscrīptōrum	cōnscrīptārum	cōnscrīptōrum
dative	cōnscrīptō	cōnscrīptae	cōnscrīptō		cōnscrīptīs
accusative	cōnscrīptum	cōnscrīptam	cōnscrīptum		cōnscrīptōs	cōnscrīptās	cōnscrīpta
ablative	cōnscrīptō	cōnscrīptā	cōnscrīptō		cōnscrīptīs
vocative	cōnscrīpte	cōnscrīpta	cōnscrīptum		cōnscrīptī	cōnscrīptae	cōnscrīpta

Noun

cōnscrīptus m (genitive cōnscrīptī); second declension

1. senator, counselor (someone enrolled)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cōnscrīptus	cōnscrīptī
genitive	cōnscrīptī	cōnscrīptōrum
dative	cōnscrīptō	cōnscrīptīs
accusative	cōnscrīptum	cōnscrīptōs
ablative	cōnscrīptō	cōnscrīptīs
vocative	cōnscrīpte	cōnscrīptī

Derived terms

• incōnscrīptus
• patrēs cōnscrīptī

Descendants

• French: conscrit

References

• “conscriptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “conscriptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• conscriptus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.