SOURCE 01supportshistorical dictionary
Étymologie: étymologie
Separates the earliest records from the modern linguistic sense.
History: c. 1175 and 1188; remarks on modern tradition- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- CNRTL Editors
- YEAR
- Not recorded
- PUBLISHER
- CNRTL
PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
ALL DISPUTES ↗CLAIM / COUNTERCLAIM / LIMITRECORD 196
DISPUTE
RECORD.
One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
resolvedestablished
Did the c. 1175 French witness already mean modern linguistic science?
No. CNRTL treats the earliest records as a title reference and contextual wordplay distinct from the modern scientific sense.
WORD UNDER REVIEWDISPUTE 196
étymologie
/e.ti.mɔ.lɔ.ʒi/ · noun
The French word for the study or historical explanation of word origins, attested in medieval forms long before its modern scientific scope stabilized.
01
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
1 SOURCES WITH A STANCE
A citation is not a vote. Each record says whether the work supports, challenges, contradicts, or contextualizes the position—and identifies the exact locus used.
02 / EDITORIAL STATE
THE CURRENT RECORD IS RESOLVED.
- CONFIDENCE
- established
- STATUS
- resolved
- LEGACY SOURCE SUMMARY
- The updated CNRTL history separates early witnesses from the 1529 filiation sense and the 1756 generalized research sense.
Journey stages and witness notes keep spelling attestation separate from semantic identity.