written

Etymology

Morphologically write + -en.

adj

1. Of, relating, or characteristic of writing (i.e., of that which has been written).
2. Having been written.
   I can speak Japanese fairly well, but I have no understanding whatsoever of written Japanese.

verb

1. past participle of write
   Has your girlfriend written you a letter yet?
   The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read. 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist