Wrote

Part of speech: verb

Pronunciation: /ɹəʊt/

Definitions

1. To have composed text or written material in a lasting form
2. To perform the act of inscribing words using a medium like pen and paper
3. To create written content or convey ideas through text in the past

Etymology: "Wrote" is the simple past of "write," and the past tense is where the surprise lies: the verb itself began as a word for tearing. Its Old English ancestor "wrītan" meant to carve or scratch into a surface, and that sense comes from a Proto-Germanic root meaning to rip or tear. Many of its relatives still carry that older sense. German "reißen" means to tear, Swedish "rita" means to draw, and Czech "rýt" means to engrave or dig. The shift from cutting into a surface to marking it with letters was a natural one. Early writing was carved into stone, wood, and wax, so scratching a surface and writing on it were close to the same act. The sense of putting symbols on a page or screen developed from that base. Because "wrote" is only the past form, its history is that of "write," traced above, with the past tense formed in the usual way from the same verb.

Synonyms: composed, authored

Antonyms: erased, destroyed