DESCRIBE Copy link • DESCRIBEShow or represent by words, describere: perscribere (describe fully): verbis exsequi: scriptura persequi (to represent by a written description or narrative): explicare aliquid or de re (give an explanation; enter into detail about anything): exponere aliquid or de re (to set anything, as it were, before the eyes; give a lucid description of, etc.): Sometimes enarrare: enumerare: litteris mandare: memoriae prodere or tradere: verbis depingere, effingere, exprimere: exprimere et effingere verbis (make clear by a description): verbis definire (to give a logical description of). (The words are found in this connection and order.) definire verbis*et describere; illustrare verbisque definire. To describe in a few words, breviter describere, exponere, complecti: to describe in many words, stilo uberiori explicare: to describe in verse, versibus describere, exponere, persequi: to describe anybody’s actions, res alicujus persequi (Cic.); anybody’s life, vitam alicujus explicare (Cic., Coecilius, 8, 27); vitam alicujus depingere (Cic., Rosc., Am., 27); de vita alicujus exponere; imaginem vitae alicujus exprimere: to describe a person, exprimere aliquem, scribere de aliquo: to describe a man shortly, aliquem informare (Cic., Att., 7, 3, 2). To describe a geometrical figure, scribere; describere: to describe a square, quadratum paribus lateribus describere: to describe a circle with a (given) centre, a centro circumagere lineam rotundationis (Vitrvius, 1, 6; Vid: CIRCLE): to describe figures in the dust, formas in pulvere describere.