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Where does “transcription” come from?

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

Ancestry of “transcription”, step by step

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

Words derived from “transcription”

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