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—
2Latintrānscrībōto transfer in writing, copy off, transcribe
3Latinscrībōto write
4Proto-Italicskreiβōto carve
5Proto-Indo-Europeanskreybʰ-to write

Words derived from “transcription”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European skreybʰ- →Every word from Proto-Italic skreiβō →Every word from Latin scrībō →