conscript

What it means

1. One who is compulsorily enrolled, often into a military service; a draftee.

   The soldier was a conscript.

   1 more example

   “[...] Isaac! You’re being conscripted.” Fay Lie grabs Isaac Sachs’s elbow. “You’ll remember bumping into Luisa Rey the other day?” “I’m one lucky conscript. Hi, Luisa, again.”

   2004, David Mitchell, “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, page 130

In a sentence

The soldier was a conscript.

Where it comes from

1. Latincōnscriptus
2. Englishconscript

From Latin cōnscriptus, perfect passive participle of cōnscrībō (“write together; enroll”).