Where does “scriber” come from?

scriber (Interlingua) comes from French écrire, from Middle French escrire, from Old French escrire, from Latin scrībō, from Proto-Italic skreiβō, from Proto-Indo-European skreybʰ- — to write.

scriber (Interlingua): to write

Definitions

  1. to write

Ancestry of “scriber”, step by step

scriber traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via French écrire

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchécrireto write
2Middle Frenchescrireto write
3Old Frenchescrirealternative infinitive of escrivre
4Latinscrībōto write
5Proto-Italicskreiβōto carve
6Proto-Indo-Europeanskreybʰ-to write

via Spanish escribir

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishescribirto write; to spell; to correspond
2Old Spanishescrivir
3Vulgar Latin*scrībīre

via Portuguese escrever

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Portugueseescreverto write
2Old Portugueseescreverto write
3Latinscrībere
Every word from Proto-Indo-European skreybʰ-