Etymology
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transcription (n.)

1590s, from 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.

Entries linking to transcription

transcribe (v.)

1550s, from Latin transcribere "to copy, write again in another place, write over, transfer," from trans "across, beyond; over" (see trans-) + scribere "to write" (from PIE root *skribh- "to cut"). To do it poorly is to transcribble (1746). Related: Transcribed; transcriber; transcribing.

updated on December 07, 2020

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Dictionary entries near transcription

transcendentalist

transcontinental

transcribe

transcript

transcriptase

transcription

transduce

transducer

transduction

transect

transept

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