script

Forms

script n (plural scripturi)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from English script, a recent anglicism.^[2][3][1] Dimitrescu also compares French script.^[3] The English word goes back to Latin scrīptum (“something written”), from scrībō (“to write”).^[1]

Old Romanian had a form of the same spelling, the inherited past participle of scrie, later replaced by scris.^[1]

Earliest recorded meaning

Dimitrescu's first quotation is from the press of 1984, of a film whose actors shaped their parts more after themselves than after the script.^[3]

Semantic evolution

The word came in with film and television, for the scenario of a film or a programme.^[2][3] Later press quotations add a legal sense, an original document used for handwriting comparison, and a computing one, a sequence of instructions run by a program.^[3]

Timeline

• 1984 – “film script”, in the press.^[3]

Meanings

Noun

1. The screenplay or scenario of a film or a broadcast.^[2][3]
2. An original document, used for comparison in a handwriting examination.^[3]
3. (computing) A script: a sequence of instructions executed by a program.^[3]

Related words

• scrie

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. script
3. ^ a b c d e f g h i Dimitrescu, Florica (1997), Dicționar de cuvinte recente, 2nd ed., București: Logos (with the 3rd ed., 2013, in CLRE), p. s.v. script