- scroll (n.)
- c.1400, "roll of parchment or paper," altered (by association with rolle "roll") from scrowe (early 13c.), from Anglo-French escrowe, Old French escroe "scrap, roll of parchment," from Frankish *skroda "shred" (cf. Middle Dutch schroode "shred," Old High German scrot "piece cut off," German Schrot "log, block, small shot"), from Proto-Germanic *skrautha "something cut."
- 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.