escribir

• escrebir
• escriure (directly from Classical Latin scrībere)

From Vulgar Latin *scrībīre, from Latin scrībere.

• IPA^(key): /eskɾiˈbi(ɾ)/
• Syllabification: es‧cri‧bir
• Rhymes: -i(ɾ)

escribir

1. to write

• “escribir”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

• escrebir (obsolete)

From Vulgar Latin *scrībīre, from Latin scrībere.

• IPA^(key): /eskɾiˈbiɾ/ [es.kɾiˈβ̞iɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: es‧cri‧bir

escribir

1. to write

• escritor
• escritu
• escritura

• escrebir
• escrever (reintegrationist)

From Old Galician-Portuguese escrivir (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *scrībīre, from Latin scrībere. Distant cognate of English shrive.

• IPA^(key): /eskɾiˈbiɾ/ [es̺.kɾiˈβ̞iɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Hyphenation: es‧cri‧bir

escribir (first-person singular present escribo, first-person singular preterite escribín, past participle escrito)

1. to write

• escribán
• escritura

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “escrivir”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “escribir”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “escribir”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “escribir”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “escribir”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• escrebir, escriuir, escreuir (obsolete)

Inherited from Old Spanish escrivir, from Vulgar Latin *scrībīre, from Latin scrībere.

• IPA^(key): /eskɾiˈbiɾ/ [es.kɾiˈβ̞iɾ]

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• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: es‧cri‧bir

escribir (first-person singular present escribo, first-person singular preterite escribí, past participle escrito or (Argentina and Uruguay) escripto)

1. (intransitive or transitive) to write (to form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate)

   Synonyms: redactar, (Belize) raitiar

   Ella escribe todas sus ideas en un cuaderno.

   She writes all her ideas in a notebook.

   ¿Cómo se escribe tu apellido?

   How do you spell your last name? (literally "How is your last name written?", using a pasiva refleja, see [1])

2. (intransitive or transitive) to write (to) someone (a letter, etc.)

   Escríbeme cuando puedas. ― Write (to) me when you can.

3. (transitive or ditransitive) to write someone something

   Escríbele una carta a Papá Noel. ― Write a letter to Santa Claus.

4. (transitive) to write (to be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.))

   Cervantes escribió el Quijote a comienzos del siglo XVII.

   Cervantes wrote Don Quijote at the beginning of the 17th century.

5. (intransitive) to write (to be an author)

   Después de publicar su primer libro, dejó de escribir.

   After publishing her first book, she stopped writing.

6. (intransitive or transitive) to type (on a phone or computer keyboard)
7. (transitive or ditransitive) to text

   Luego te escribo un mensaje.

   I'll send you a message later.

   (literally, “I'll write you a message later.”)

8. (colloquial, reflexive) to chat regularly with someone on social media

   Synonym: hablar

   Me escribo con uno del Barça.

   I chat with someone from Barça.

• “escribir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025