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English

Etymology

From Middle French conscription, from Latin c?nscripti? (“levying of troops”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?sk??p??n/

Noun

conscription (countable and uncountable, plural conscriptions)

1. Involuntary labor, especially military service, demanded by some established authority.

   Synonym: draft

2. An enrolling or registering.
   • 1679-1715, Gilbert Burnet, History of the Reformation

     conscription of men of war

Related terms

• conscribe
• conscript

Translations

Further reading

• “conscription”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• conscription on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Morphologically, a borrowing from Latin c?nscr?pti?; however, semantically derived from conscrit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??s.k?ip.sj??/

Noun

conscription f (plural conscriptions)

1. conscription

Further reading

• “conscription” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology 1

From Latin c?nscriptus, perfect passive participle of c?nscr?b? (“write together; enroll”).

Pronunciation

• (noun, adjective)
  • (RP): enPR: k?n'skr?pt, IPA^(key): /?k?nsk??pt/
  • (US): enPR: kän'skr?pt, IPA^(key): /?k?nsk??pt/
• (verb) enPR: k?n'skr?pt, IPA^(key): /k?n?sk??pt/
  • Rhymes: -?pt

Noun

conscript (plural conscripts)

1. One who is compulsorily enrolled, often into a military service; a draftee.

Translations

Adjective

conscript (not comparable)

1. Drafted into a military service or similar.
2. Enrolled; written; registered.

Translations

Verb

conscript (third-person singular simple present conscripts, present participle conscripting, simple past and past participle conscripted)

1. (transitive) To enrol(l) compulsorily; to draft; to induct.

   Synonyms: draft, induct

Related terms

• conscription

Translations

Etymology 2

con- (“constructed”) +? script

Noun

conscript (plural conscripts)

1. A constructed script or writing system, especially for use with a conlang.

Synonyms

• neography