Inscripsit

Inscripsit is a Latin verb form meaning "he inscribed" or "he wrote [this]." It is the third-person singular perfect active indicative of inscribere, the verb meaning to inscribe or to write on. In scholarly and epigraphic usage, inscripsit is commonly employed to attribute a text, inscription, or line to a particular author or scribe. The phrase may appear in inscriptions themselves or in critical editions, catalogues, or apparatus notes as an attribution after a title or entry, for example when an editor records that a line was inscripsit by a named person. The exact sense—whether the named individual authored the text, or merely inscribed the material, or both—depends on context.

The related noun inscriptio denotes the inscription itself, while inscriptus or inscripta can occur as adjectives meaning "inscribed" or as past participles referring to the inscriber. Etymologically, inscripsit comes from in- plus scribere, via inscribere, meaning to write on or upon.

In modern Latin philology and epigraphy, inscripsit remains a conventional editorial device for signaling authorship or involvement of a specific person in the creation or carving of an inscription. It is primarily encountered in Latin-language scholarly literature rather than in everyday prose.