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Transcribe

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to put spoken words or one form of text into written or another form
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Stage 1 of 2
transcribere
Latin · ancient
"to write across, to copy"
to write across, to copy, from trans- (across) and scribere (to write)
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Stage 2 of 2
transcribe
English · 1590s
"to write down speech, or to copy text from one form to another"
settled as the English word for writing down speech or copying text
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