Present tense third-person singular form of ascribe; attributes or credits something to someone.
From Latin 'ascribere,' following standard English verb conjugation patterns. The -s ending indicates third-person singular present tense.
When you ascribe something to someone, you're literally putting their name on it mentally—a vestige of when scribes would physically write attribution marks on documents!
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