English
transcriptome
From transcript + -ome.
A compound of transcript + -ome
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybʰeti
Proto-Italic *skreiβō ‘to carve’
Latin scrībō ‘to write’
Latin trānscrībō ‘to transfer in writing, copy off, transcribe’
Latin transcriptum
English transcript
Today it means
noun The complete set of RNA molecules (transcripts) produced in a cell or a population of cells.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “transcriptome”. 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 / transcriptome