scroll English · revision 15388

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1405|origins=ine-pro *skrewt-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /skɹəʊl/ ''(UK)''; /skɹoʊl/ ''(US)''^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|enm|scrowell]], an alteration under the influence of [[m|enm|rolle|t=roll]] of [[m|enm|scrowe]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986)^(MWU 2024) [[bor|xno|escrowe]] (Old French [[m|fro|escroe|t=scrap, strip of parchment]]),^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986) from [[frk|*skrōda|t=shred]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) from [[gem-pro|*skraudō]], which also gave Old English [[m|ang|scrēade|t=piece cut off]] (see [[shred]]).^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ A roll of parchment or paper, a written document: 1405 (scrowell) in Barnhart, about 1400 in Etymonline;^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) the earlier scrowe is probably from before 1200, in the ''Ancrene Riwle''.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ A letter or piece of writing is from 1534,^(OED 1989) and a list of names from 1546.^(OED 1989) A strip bearing an inscription is from before 1600,^(OED 1989) and a spiral ornament like a partly unrolled scroll from the early 15th century on garments, by the 1610s on furniture and in architecture.^(Etymonline) The Scroll of the Law, the Torah, is from 1887.^(OED 1989) The verb, to write down in a scroll, is from 1606,^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) and to move text across a computer screen by 1981.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * probably before 1200 – scrowe.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1405 – scrowell, a roll of parchment.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1534 – a letter.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1606 – to scroll (verb).^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1981 – to scroll a screen.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A roll of [[parchment]] or paper, especially one with writing on it.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # An ancient book written on such a roll.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # An ornament like a partly unrolled scroll, as on an [[Ionic]] column.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ===Verb===

+ # To move text or images up, down or across a computer screen.^(AHD)

+ # To roll up like a scroll.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[scrolled]]

+ * [[scroll-like]]

+ * [[scroll saw]]

+ * [[Vitruvian scroll]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[shred]]

+ * [[escrow]]

+ * [[scrod]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}