Etymograph

English

scrolltext

From scroll + text.

A compound of scroll + text

Middle English scrowle ‘scroll, document, bill’

English scroll

Proto-Italic *teksō

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Latin textus ‘style or texture of a work’

Medieval Latin textus ‘text’

Old French texte

Middle English text

English text

Today it means

noun Text displayed in an animated scrolling message, common in early demos.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “scrolltext”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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