English
scribacious
Scribacious comes from Latin scrībo ‘to write’, from Proto-Italic *skreiβō ‘to carve’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybʰeti.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(s)kréybʰetireconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*skreiβō‘to carve’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEscrībo‘to write’
- Englishearliest quotation a. 1678scribacious
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(s)kréybʰetireconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*skreiβō‘to carve’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEscrībo‘to write’
- Englishearliest quotation a. 1678scribacious
Earliest quotation: a. 1678, Isaac Barrow, A Treatise of the Pope’s Supremacy. […]: “VVe have ſome Letters of Popes, (though not many;…”
Formed from scrībo + -acious
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybʰeti
through Proto-Italic *skreiβō ‘to carve’
prescription, scripture, transcript, inscription, conscription, shriver, scriptural, nondescript, conscript, descript, 28 more
through Latin scrībo ‘to write’
description, script, prescribe, transcribe, ascribe, shrift, scrivener, inscribe, 36 more
Today it means
adj Prone to excessive writing.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybʰeti / scribacious