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Scripturelike comes from Latin scrīptūra ‘a writing, something written’, from scrībō ‘to write’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybʰeti.

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 CEscrīptūra¹‘a writing, something written’
5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500scripture¹
6. English1500–presentscripture¹
7. Englishearliest quotation 1997scripturelike¹

1. ¹ Wiktionary, English scripturelike
2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1997, David S. Reynolds, Debra J. Rosenthal: “As an antiliquor tract, temperance literature was meant, scripturelike,…”.