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Where does “transcription” come from?

Transcription comes from Middle French transcription, meaning the action of transcribing or copying written text.

transcription (English): The act or process of transcribing; Something...

Definitions

  1. The act or process of transcribing; Something...

Ancestry of “transcription”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchtranscription—
2Latintranscriptiōnem—
3Latintrānscrībō—
4Latinscrībō—
5Proto-Italicskreiβōto carve
6Proto-Indo-Europeanskreybʰ-to write

Words derived from “transcription”

  • transcriptional
  • transcriptionally
  • posttranscriptional
  • posttranscriptionally
  • mistranscription
  • cotranscriptional
  • retranscription
  • cotranscription
  • posttranscription
  • retrotranscription
  • teletranscription
  • pretranscription
  • hypertranscriptional
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