English
touch screen
From touch + screen.
Proto-Indo-European *dewk- ‘to draw, pull’
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Frankish *tukkōn ‘to knock, strike, touch’
Vulgar Latin *tuccō ‘to knock, strike’
Old French tochier ‘to touch’
Middle English touchen ‘to touch’
English touch
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- ‘to cut off, sever’
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Old Dutch skirm
Middle Dutch scherm
Anglo-Norman escren ‘firescreen’
Middle English scren
English screen
Today it means
noun An input and output device that allows the user to interact with the computer by touching the display screen.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “touch screen”. 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.
Etymograph / touch screen