transcritas

Transcritas is the feminine plural form of the past participle of transcribir in Spanish and of transcrever in Portuguese. It functions as an adjective meaning “transcribed” or “written down from another source” and agrees with feminine plural nouns, as in las palabras transcritas or as palavras transcritas. The term is frequently used in journalism, linguistics, archival work, and legal contexts to describe material that has been rendered in writing from audio, video, or oral testimony.

In Spanish, common contexts include entrevistas transcritas, notas transcritas, and transcripciones used in reports; in Portuguese, examples include palavras transcritas and notas transcritas. In both languages, transcritas contrasts with the corresponding noun forms transcripción (Spanish) and transcrição (Portuguese), which refer more to the act of transcribing or to the transcript itself rather than the state of having been transcribed. The word derives from Latin transcribere, meaning to write across or to reproduce in writing, and has entered the modern Romance languages with similar meanings.

In scholarly and archival work, transcritas helps distinguish source material that has been converted to text from the original recording. It is typically used adjectivally and may appear on labels, metadata, or descriptions in databases and library catalogs. For readers seeking related terms, see transcription and transcripción (Spanish) or transcrição (Portuguese).