quword 趣词
Word Origins Dictionary
- bibliographer (n.)
- 1650s, from Greek bibliographos "writer of books, transcriber, copyist," related to bibliographia (see bibliography).
- transcribe (v.)
- 1550s, from Latin transcribere "to copy, write again in another place, write over, transfer," from trans- "over" (see trans-) + scribere "write" (see script (n.)). To do it poorly is to transcribble (1746). Related: Transcribed; transcriber; transcribing.
- transcript (n.)
- "written copy of a document," c. 1300, from Medieval Latin transcriptum, neuter past participle of Latin transcribere (see transcribe).
- transcription (n.)
- 1590s, from Middle French transcription, from Late Latin transcriptionem (nominative transcriptio), noun of action from past participle stem of transcribere (see transcribe). Biological sense is from 1961. Related: Transcriptional; transcriptionist.