Where does “metatranscription” come from?

metatranscription (English) comes from English transcription, from Middle French transcription, from Latin transcriptiōnem, from Latin trānscrībō, from Latin scrībō, from Proto-Italic skreiβō, from Proto-Indo-European skreybʰ- — to write.

metatranscription (English): The transcription of the nucleic acid of a group of related, or interacting organisms

Definitions

  1. The transcription of the nucleic acid of a group of related, or interacting organisms

Ancestry of “metatranscription”, step by step

metatranscription traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English transcription

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishtranscriptionThe act or process of transcribing; Something...
2Middle Frenchtranscription
3Latintranscriptiōnem
4Latintrānscrībōto transfer in writing, copy off, transcribe
5Latinscrībōto write
6Proto-Italicskreiβōto carve
7Proto-Indo-Europeanskreybʰ-to write

via English meta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishmetaSelf-referential; structured analogously, but at...
2Latinmētacone, pyramid
3Proto-West Germanicmōtijanto meet
4Proto-Germanicmōtijanąto meet, encounter
5Proto-Germanicmōtąmeeting
6Proto-Indo-Europeanmeh₂d-to be wet, to become wet; to meet, approach,...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European skreybʰ-Every word from Proto-Italic skreiβōEvery word from Latin scrībō