writeth

«writeth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: writes — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

writes

part of speech

verb, old form of «writes» (he, she, it)

meaning for a pupil

«writeth» means «writes», a form of «write»: To write means to put letters, words or numbers on paper or a screen. tree →

how it differs from today

Only the ending is old: -eth was the ending for he, she and it, where today we say -s: «he writeth» = «he writes».

examples

• and the latter husband hateth her, and writeth her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife; (Torah DEU.24.3, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -eth (stem «write», a verb of EWT); corpora 2 (Torah 2, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 4.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «writeth» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.