Where does “typescript” come from?
Typescript comes from English type, from Latin scriptum and scriptus meaning "written," from Ancient Greek τύπος meaning "impression or mark," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European skreybʰ- meaning "to cut or scratch."
typescript (English): typewritten material, especially such a copy of a...
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- typewritten material, especially such a copy of a...
Ancestry of “typescript”, step by step
typescript traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English JavaScript
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | JavaScript | A scripting programming language most commonly used to add interactive features to webpages |
| 2 | English | script | A writing; a written document; Written... |
| 3 | Middle English | scrit | writing; document; scroll |
| 4 | Old French | escrit | past participle of escrire; third-person singular... |
| 5 | Latin | scriptus | written, having been written |
| 6 | Latin | scribo | I write |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | skreiβō | to carve |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | skreybʰ- | to write |
via English type
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | type | A grouping based on shared characteristics; a... |
| 2 | Middle English | type | symbol, figure, emblem |
| 3 | Latin | typus | figure, image; type, form, sort, kind; form,... |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | τύπος | A blow, pressing; The results of a blow: mark,... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | τύπτω | to beat, strike, smite; to beat, strike oneself |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)tewp- | to push, to stick |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)tew- | to push, to hit |