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Transcript comes from Latin trānscrībō ‘to transfer in writing, copy off, transcribe’, from scrībō ‘to write’, 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 CEscrībō‘to write’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtrānscrībōas transcribere‘to transfer in writing, copy off, transcribe’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtranscriptum
- Englishearliest quotation 1676transcript
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
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- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(s)kréybʰetireconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*skreiβō‘to carve’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEscrībō‘to write’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtrānscrībōas transcribere‘to transfer in writing, copy off, transcribe’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtranscriptum
- Englishearliest quotation 1676transcript
Earliest quotation: 1676, Joseph Glanvill: “The Grecian learning was but a transcript of the…”
Linked words
through Proto-Italic *skreiβō ‘to carve’
shriver, ascribe, inscribe, 29 more
through Latin scrībō ‘to write’
description, prescription, scripture, prescribe, inscription, scribe, scribble, conscription, shrift, scriptural, nondescript, scrivener, conscript, descript, 30 more
Today it means
noun Something which has been transcribed; a writing or composition consisting of the same words as the original; a written copy.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybʰeti / transcript