sign (v.) Copy link Outline I. To give a s. or signal toII. To put one's signature to a document1. subscrībo, 32. signo, 1 (to ratify by signature and seal)3. sometimes, when the authorising of a public act is denoted, expr. by scribendo adfuere (indicating who were present at the drawing up of the said act), SS. CC. in Cic. Fam. 8, 8. Phr. • sign (v.): I. To give a s. or signal to: annuo, signum do: v. to signal, signify, beckon. II. To put one's signature to a document: 1. subscrībo, 3: to s. (a death warrant), ex more s., Suet. Ner. 10: to s. the accounts, rationes s., Dig. 35, 1, 82: better rationibus s., cf. Ulp. ib. 2, 13, 6, § 1. 2. signo, 1 (to ratify by signature and seal): to s. (and seal) a will, testamentum s., Plin. Ep. 2, 20, 8: v. to seal. 3. sometimes, when the authorising of a public act is denoted, expr. by scribendo adfuere (indicating who were present at the drawing up of the said act), SS. CC. in Cic. Fam. 8, 8. Phr.: to s. one's name to a letter, nomen epistolae notare, Flor. 2, 12, 10. See also to subscribe.