SOURCE 01supportslexical database
Logeion: lex
Supplies the attested Latin senses without proving a single prehistoric collection-of-rules meaning.
lex- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Classics Department Editors
- YEAR
- Not recorded
- PUBLISHER
- University of Chicago
PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
ALL DISPUTES ↗CLAIM / COUNTERCLAIM / LIMITRECORD 20
DISPUTE
RECORD.
One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
openproposed
Did Latin lēx originally mean a “collection of rules”?
That semantic bridge and the deeper gather-root connection are plausible published analyses, not an uncontested fact. The root shape *leǵ- versus *sleǵ- is also disputed.
WORD UNDER REVIEWDISPUTE 20
legal
/ˈliːɡəl/ · adjective · noun
Of law or permitted by law; borrowed through Anglo-French from Latin lēgālis and lēx.
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DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
2 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.
SOURCE 02contextjournal article
The Indo-European Origin of Latin lex
Discusses the disputed deeper formation of Latin lex.
*sleg- argument- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Elwira Kaczyńska
- YEAR
- 2013
- PUBLISHER
- University of Seville repository
02 / EDITORIAL STATE
THE QUESTION REMAINS OPEN.
- CONFIDENCE
- proposed
- STATUS
- open
- LEGACY SOURCE SUMMARY
- Logeion: lex; Kaczyńska 2013; Indo-European lexicography
The reviewed evidence does not yet warrant collapsing the competing or incomplete analyses into one secure answer.