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Origin and history of postscript

postscript(n.)

"an addition made to a written or printed composition," especially a paragraph added to a letter which already has been concluded and signed by the writer, 1550s, from Latin post scriptum "written after" (compare postscribere "to write after"), from post "after" (see post-) + neuter past participle of scribere "to write" (from PIE root *skribh- "to cut").

also from 1550s

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P.S.

1610s, abbreviation of Latin post scriptum (see postscript).

postscribe(v.)

"write after, write as a postscript," 1610s, a back-formation from postscript or else from Latin postscribere "write after."

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