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- Latin · derived frompraescriptio“preface; pretext; something written ahead of time”
- Old French · derived fromprescripcion
- English todayprescription
Borrowed from Middle French, from Old French prescripcion, from Latin praescriptio (“preface; pretext; something written ahead of time”), from prae- (“pre-, before”) + scribere (“to write”) + -tio (“-tion, forming nouns”). Equivalent to prescribe + -tion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.