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MULTI-WORD EVIDENCE LAB
PAIRWISE LAB ↗THE QUESTION THE GRAPH WAS BUILT TO ANSWER2–8 WORDS
CONNECT
THE WHOLE
FAMILY.
Ask how several words are related. *SET-U computes pairwise shortest paths, then builds a compact spanning forest from cited lexical edges. A shared person or text may bridge islands, but it is never mislabeled as ancestry.
Distinct forms in the spanning evidence network.
Distinct cited lexical relationships used.
Distinct bibliographic records supporting this view.
ONE REVIEWED NETWORK2 lexical branches · 0 context bridges
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THE SPANNING EVIDENCE FOREST
2 BRANCHES CONNECT THE RESOLVED WORDS
REVIEWED LEXICAL PATH
4 EDGEScandid ↔ candidate
01
Present-Day English · 1597–today
attestedcandid
open, frank, honest; originally white in English
borrowing
Brightness, favor, and unblemished quality develop toward openness, fairness, and frank expression.
SOUND + EVIDENCE
English borrowed the adjective through Middle French candide with spelling and pronunciation adapted to English.
Merriam-Webster editors · establishedCandid — Definition, Word History, and First Known Use · Did You Know?; Word History; First Known Use ↗OPEN EDGE 367 ↗02
Middle French · Middle French, c. 1300–1600
attestedcandide
brilliant; favorably disposed
borrowing
Latin brightness and whiteness support French brilliance and favorable disposition.
SOUND + EVIDENCE
Middle French candide was borrowed from Latin candidus with regular Romance adaptation.
Merriam-Webster editors · establishedCandid — Definition, Word History, and First Known Use · Word History: Middle French candide from Latin candidus ↗OPEN EDGE 368 ↗03
Latin · Latin antiquity
attestedcandidus
bright white; shining; clear
derivation
The white-clad Roman office-seeker became the lexical category for a person seeking office.
SOUND + EVIDENCE
Latin candidātus is built from candidus and identifies the person clothed in shining white.
Corpus of Latin Dictionaries editors · establishedCorpus of Latin Dictionaries: candidatus · candidatus ↗OPEN EDGE 31 ↗04
Latin · Roman antiquity
attestedcandidātus
a person standing for office; the white-clad one
borrowing
An office-seeker remained an office-seeker, later broadening to any person under selection.
SOUND + EVIDENCE
English borrowed the learned Latin office term with regular adaptation of ending and stress.
Merriam-Webster · CNRTL editors · establishedÉtymologie: candidat / candidate · Étymologie ↗OPEN EDGE 30 ↗REVIEWED LEXICAL PATH
6 EDGEScandidate ↔ candor
01
Present-Day English · c. 1600–today
attestedcandidate
a person seeking office, selection, or appointment
borrowing
An office-seeker remained an office-seeker, later broadening to any person under selection.
SOUND + EVIDENCE
English borrowed the learned Latin office term with regular adaptation of ending and stress.
Merriam-Webster · CNRTL editors · establishedÉtymologie: candidat / candidate · Étymologie ↗OPEN EDGE 30 ↗02
Latin · Roman antiquity
attestedcandidātus
a person standing for office; the white-clad one
derivation
The white-clad Roman office-seeker became the lexical category for a person seeking office.
SOUND + EVIDENCE
Latin candidātus is built from candidus and identifies the person clothed in shining white.
Corpus of Latin Dictionaries editors · establishedCorpus of Latin Dictionaries: candidatus · candidatus ↗OPEN EDGE 31 ↗03
Latin · Latin antiquity
attestedcandidus
bright white; shining; clear
derivation
Physical brightness and whiteness extended to clarity and unblemished quality.
SOUND + EVIDENCE
candidus belongs to the candēre family of shining and whiteness.
Latin lexicography · establishedLogeion: candidus · candidus ↗OPEN EDGE 32 ↗04
Latin · Latin antiquity
attestedcandēre
to shine; glow; be white
derivation
The act or state of shining yields brightness, radiance, and whiteness.
SOUND + EVIDENCE
Latin candor is an abstract noun in -or formed beside candēre.
Merriam-Webster · Latin lexicography · establishedLogeion: candeo · Headword candeo ↗OPEN EDGE 374 ↗05
Latin · Latin antiquity
attestedcandor
brightness, radiance, whiteness; favorable disposition
borrowing
Radiance, whiteness, and favorable disposition support purity, innocence, and later frankness.
SOUND + EVIDENCE
French candeur was borrowed from Latin candor with Romance sound and spelling adaptation.
Merriam-Webster editors · establishedCandor — Definition, Word History, and First Known Use · Word History: French candeur from Latin candor ↗OPEN EDGE 373 ↗06
French · French
attestedcandeur
brightness, purity, innocence, or candor
borrowing
Brightness and unstained purity become frankness and honest expression.
SOUND + EVIDENCE
English candor was borrowed through French candeur with English spelling and pronunciation.
Merriam-Webster editors · establishedCandor — Definition, Word History, and First Known Use · Did You Know?; Word History: French and Latin borrowing ↗OPEN EDGE 372 ↗03
WHAT THIS VIEW PROVES
COMPACT DOES NOT MEAN CERTAIN
Every resolved pair is searched through the undirected reviewed graph, bounded at 12 edges.
Cited ancestry, borrowing, derivation, and semantic continuation paths are preferred over historical-context bridges.
The shortest available pair paths are greedily selected until each connectable word belongs to one network.
This is a compact evidence view, not a claim that scholarship has one uniquely minimal family tree.