Etymology

scenarist

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Today it means: A writer of screenplays; a screenwriter. Full definition →

English scenar(io) ← Italian scenario ← Latin scēna
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*(s)ḱeh₃-
  2. Ancient Greekσκηνή (skēnḗ)
  3. Latinscēna
  4. Italianscena
  5. Italianscenario
  6. Englishscenar(io)
  7. English todayscenarist

From scenar(io) + -ist.

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