rescript

Meaninga rescript, reply

Common meaning: an official reply

reback, againSkeat, Concise Etymological Dictionary (1911), p. 444 · scan
scriptto write; to mark with linesLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1647 · scan

‘back, again’ + ‘to write’ → rescript

Journey through time

re — Latin re- “back, again” (path traced)
script — Latin scrībō, scrīpsī, scrīptum “to write; to mark with lines” (path traced)

Parts join in Latin as rescriptum.

Latinre- + scribere‘back, again + to write; to mark with lines’source
Latinrescriptum‘a rescript, reply’source
Old Frenchrescriptsource
Englishrescript‘an official reply’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Latin rescriptum, which Skeat (Concise Dictionary, 1911) analyses as re- ‘back, again’ + scribere ‘to write; to mark with lines’.

Roots

rescriptum Latin “a rescript, reply”
scrībō, scrīpsī, scrīptum Latin “to write; to mark with lines”

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