Other forms: inscribed, inscribing, inscribes
To inscribe is to carve or write words on a surface. Inscribe a name, an inscribed ring, inscribe the book to somebody.
Of a book it means writing a dedication by hand, which is what makes a signed copy worth more. In geometry, to inscribe a shape is to draw it inside another touching the sides.
1verbinscribeTo carve or write words on a surface.
“The names of the fallen soldiers are inscribed on the stone memorial.”
inscribe is a writing.
Latin inscribere means to write upon, from in plus scribere, to write.
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)kreybʰ-
Latin
īnscrībō
English, today
inscribe
Built from
Borrowed from Latin īnscrībō, from in- (“upon”) and scrībō (“to write”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA