scroll
pronunciation
How to pronounce scroll in British English:
UK [skrəʊl]
How to pronounce scroll in American English:
US [skroʊl]
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- Noun:
- a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles
- a document that can be rolled up (as for storage)
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- Verb:
- move through text or graphics in order to display parts that do not fit on the screen
Word Origin
- scroll
- scroll: [15] Scroll has no family connection with roll, although roll is largely responsible for its present-day form. Etymologically it is actually the same word as shred. Both go back to a prehistoric Germanic *skrautha ‘something cut’. This evolved in a straight line to give English shred, but it was also borrowed through medieval Latin scrōda into Old French as escroe, where its meaning ‘cut piece, strip’ narrowed to ‘strip of parchment’.Its Anglo- Norman version escrowe was acquired by English, where it split in two. It survives in full as escrow [16], a legal term for a sort of deed, but a shortened form, scrow, also emerged, and association with roll (in the sense ‘roll of parchment’) led to its being altered to scrowle or scroll.=> escrow, shred
- scroll (n.)
- c. 1400, "roll of parchment or paper," altered (by association with rolle "roll") from scrowe (c. 1200), from Anglo-French escrowe, Old French escroe "scrap, roll of parchment," from Frankish *skroda "shred" or a similar Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *skrauth- (cognates: Old English screada "piece cut off, cutting, scrap;" see shred (n.)). As an ornament on furniture or in architecture, from 1610s.
- scroll (v.)
- "to write down in a scroll," c. 1600, from scroll (n.). Sense of "show a few lines at a time" (on a computer or TV screen) first recorded 1981. Related: Scrolled; scrolling.
Example
- 1. The thangka , or scroll painting , is a special art of tibetan buddhism .
- 2. Over the staircase to the dining room , a painted scroll features a tiny figure clambering up a mountain .
- 3. Augustine was writing at the end of the fourth century , when the codex had largely superseded the scroll as the most prevalent form of reading material .
- 4. The key to shingo 's christ cult lies in a scroll purported to be christ 's last will and testament , dictated as he was dying in the village .
- 5. Turning the page , not turning the handle of the scroll , was the new technical prelude to undergoing a major turn in one 's own life .