describe

中文vt. 描述，描绘，画来自 ECDICT

演变路径（由近及远）

英语
源自 ←中古英语 descriven
源自 ←古法语 descrivre
源自 ←拉丁语 dēscrībō “to copy off, transcribe, sketch off, describe in painting or writing”

原始词根

词源说明

From Middle English descriven, from Old French descrivre, from Latin dēscrībō (“to copy off, transcribe, sketch off, describe in painting or writing”), from dē (“off”) + scrībō (“write”); see scribe and shrive. Displaced native Old English āmearcian.

释义（英文）

动词 Verb

(transitive) To represent in words.
(transitive) To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out.
(transitive, mathematics) To give rise to a geometrical structure.
(transitive, taxonomy) To introduce a new taxon to science by explaining its characteristics and particularly how it differs from other taxa.
(obsolete, transitive) To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.

词族

派生词（9）

describability describee misdescribe overdescribe predescribe redescribe abovedescribed aforedescribed describer