prescrever

== Portuguese == === Etymology === Borrowed (modeled on escrever), from Latin praescrībere. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: pres‧cre‧ver === Verb === prescrever (first-person singular present prescrevo, first-person singular preterite prescrevi, past participle prescrito) (healthcare, transitive) to prescribe (to declare that a drug or treatment should be used by a patient) (transitive) to prescribe (to specify a procedure or practice as correct or required) Antonym: proscrever (criminal law, of a crime, intransitive) to become unprosecutable after a time limit, due to a statute of limitations ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Related terms ==== prescrição prescrito escrever === Further reading === “prescrever”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “prescrever”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026