Where does “scrib” come from?

scrib (Romanian) comes from French scribe, from Latin scriba, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.

scrib (Romanian): scribe

Definitions

  1. scribe

Ancestry of “scrib”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchscribescribe
2Latinscribawriter, scribe, secretary, clerk
3Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
4Proto-Italic-āForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
5Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂ →Every word from Latin -a →Every word from Latin scriba →