prescribe
to officially recommend or order
Roots
- pre-: before, earlier, or in front
- scrib / script: write, draw, or mark
Other words with the scrib / script root
- ascribe: to attribute something to a cause or source
- circumscribe: to limit or draw around
- describe: to say or write what something is like
- inscribe: to write or carve onto something
- inscription: words written or carved onto a surface
- manuscript: a handwritten or typed draft of a text
- proscribe: to forbid officially
Prescribe began as writing before: a doctor writes what should be done.
The doctor prescribed rest before medicine.