Etymograph

English

transcriptomics

From transcript + -omics.

A compound of transcript + -omics

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 study of the transcriptome of a species or individual

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “transcriptomics”. 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 / transcriptomics