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Script comes from Middle English scrit, from Old French escrit ‘writing’, from Latin scrīptum ‘something written’, from scrībō ‘to write’.

1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(s)kréybʰeti¹reconstructed
2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*skreiβō¹‘to carve’reconstructed
3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEscrībō¹‘to write’
4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEscrīptum¹‘something written’
5. Old Frenchc. 842–1400escrit¹‘writing(s)’
6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500scrit¹‘writing; document’
7. Englishearliest quotation 1934script¹

1. ¹ Wiktionary, English script
2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1934, Ernest Bramah: “But the one [letter] in the unknown script and…”.