Transcript
nounA written or printed version of something originally spoken or recorded.
How to spell transcript
10 letters · 2 syllables
How to pronounce transcript
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What does transcript mean?
- nounA written or printed version of something originally spoken or recorded.
- nounAn official document listing a student's courses and grades.
Transcript in a sentence
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The court released a full transcript of the witness testimony.
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The university asked applicants to submit an official transcript of their grades.
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She read back the interview transcript before filing her report.
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His transcript showed top marks in every science module.
Where does transcript come from?
Language of origin: Latin
This word descends from the Latin transcriptum, the past participle of transcribere, which combined trans, meaning 'across' or 'over', with scribere, meaning 'to write'. The literal sense was therefore 'to write over' or 'to copy out', the act of carrying a piece of writing across from one document into another. It entered English through Old French in the late medieval period as a term for an official written copy, and the same scribere root sits inside a large family of everyday words such as describe, prescribe, manuscript and scripture. Over time the meaning broadened from a hand-copied legal record to any faithful written version of something, including the modern senses of a typed-up record of spoken words and an official statement of a student's academic results. Because the word is simply the clear prefix trans plus the familiar element script, its spelling is more transparent than many Latin borrowings.
How the word is built
- trans- (across)
- script (written, from Latin scribere 'to write')
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