Where does “manuscripts” come from?
manuscripts (English) comes from English manuscript, from Latin manuscriptus, from Latin scriptus, from Latin scribo, from Proto-Italic skreiβō, from Proto-Indo-European skreybʰ- — to write.
manuscripts (English): plural of manuscript
Definitions
- plural of manuscript
Ancestry of “manuscripts”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | manuscript | handwritten, or by extension manually... |
| 2 | Latin | manuscriptus | manuscript, hand-written |
| 3 | Latin | scriptus | written, having been written |
| 4 | Latin | scribo | I write |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | skreiβō | to carve |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | skreybʰ- | to write |