A writer may indite a poem, but a doctor may also indite a prescription. “Indite,” from the Anglo-French “enditer,” meaning “to write, compose,” and the Latin “indicere,” meaning “to make known formally, proclaim,” can be used in a creative writing context, but it can also refer to anything being put down in writing. The original, but now obsolete, usage of the word was “to dictate,” which shares a root in the Latin “dicere,” meaning “to say.”