Etymology

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scan·ner
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Today it means: One who scans. Full definition →

First used 16th c.English scan ← Middle English scanne ← Latin scandō
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*skend-
  2. Proto-Italic*skandō
  3. Latinscandō
  4. Middle Englishscanden
  5. Middle Englishscanne
  6. Englishscan
  7. English todayscanner

From scan + -er.

First known use, by meaning

  • from 16th c. One who scans.
  • from 20th c. A device which scans documents in order to convert them to a digital medium.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.