Transcribo, transcrîbis, peoule. pro. tranicripsi, transcriptum, transcribere. Cic.To write or copie out.Fabulas & orationes iua manu tranicribere. Author ad Heren. Transcribere aliquem authorem. Plini. To write or copie out of au Authour that which is for out purpose. Transcribere. Virgil. To giue: to transterre: to gluehys right to an other: to giue ouer to.Fundum alicui transcribere, Procolus.To giue ouer a pece of land to one: to giue him linerie and season.Transcribere fœminam aliquam in viros. Sen. To attompt or number a woman among worthie men. Transcribere. Quint. To transpose and sell from oue to another.Eodem precio mulier transcriberet viro. Transcribere.Liui.To lende to one vnder an other mans name: to set the title of debt vpon an other mans bead.Nomina transeribere in alios, Vide NOMSN.To set one mans debt vpon other mens heads.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
transcrībo or trans-scrībo, psi, ptum, 3, v. a., to write over (from one book into another), to transfer in writing, to copy off, transcribe (syn. transfero). I. In gen.: fabulas aut orationes totas vestrā manu, Auct. Her. 4, 4, 6: veteres ad verbum, Plin. H. N. praef. 22: Cornelium Celsum, id. ib. 14, 2, 4, 33: eundem librum in exemplaria transcriptum mille, Plin. Ep. 4, 7, 2: verba Quadrigarii ex Annali ejus sexto, Gell. 2, 2, 13. — II. In partic. A. Pregn., to write off in an altered form, to alter, forge: cum tabulas (testamenti) prehendisset Oppianicus, digito legata delevit, et cum id multis locis fecisset, post mortem ejus, ne lituris coargui posset, testamentum in alias tabulas transcriptum signis adulterinis obsignavit, Cic. Clu. 14, 41: qui transcripserit tabulas publicas, id. N. D. 3, 30, 74.—B. Jurid. t. t., to make over, transfer a thing to any one as his own; to assign, convey: in socios nomina, Liv. 35, 7, 2: aes alienum hereditarium in se, Dig. 16, 1, 13: fundos alicui, ib. 19, 5, 12: agri plagam Publio et Gaio, ib. 32, 1, 39 med.: praedium, Cod. Just. 11, 2, 3.—2.Transf., in gen., to transfer, surrender, yield: Turne, patiere tua Dardaniis transcribi sceptra colonis?Verg. A. 7, 422: Cilicas, Sid. Carm. 2, 461: cuiquam spatium vitae, Ov. M. 7, 173. — C.To transfer, remove to another place or station: turmas equitum ademptis equis in funditorum alas transcripsit, Val. Max. 2, 7, 9; 2, 7, 15: transcribunt urbi matres, Verg. A. 5, 750.—2.Trop.: cum te in viros philosophia transcripserit, Sen. Ep. 4, 1: in quod malum transcribor!id. Thyest. 13.—D. Of pictures, to copy, transfer (cf.: exprimo, assimulo): multum degenerat transcribentium sors varia, Plin. 25, 2, 4, 8.