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scriptment

noun

Etymology

Blend of script + treatment. Coined by Canadian filmmaker James Cameron, possibly during his early involvement in the development of the Spider-Man film series.

  1. derived from tracto
  2. derived from tretier
  3. derived from treter
  4. inherited from treten
  5. suffixed as treatment — “treat + ment”
  6. compounded as scriptment — “script + treatment”

Definitions

  1. A written work by a movie or television screenwriter that combines elements of a script…

    A written work by a movie or television screenwriter that combines elements of a script and treatment, especially the dialogue elements, which are formatted the same as in a screenplay.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for scriptment. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA