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CHILD / LATER FORM / attestedLate Latin · Ecclesiastical Latin · virtue opposed pride

humilitās

lowness in a positive moral sense; humility opposed to pride

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PARENT / EARLIER FORM / attestedLatin · Classical Latin · physical social lowness

humilitās

literal low height or stature; low rank, insignificance, meanness, or abjectness

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THE COMPLETE RELATIONSHIP

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SOUND CHANGE

The Latin form humilitās remains segmentally continuous across the modeled sense boundary.

SEMANTIC CHANGE

Literal and social lowness is positively specialized in ecclesiastical Latin as humility opposed to pride.

CHRONOLOGY

Lewis and Short labels the positive sense ecclesiastical Latin.

SCHOLAR / EDITORIAL AUTHORITY

Charlton T. Lewis · Charles Short

CONFIDENCE

established — This is a sense-specific graph split, not a claim that two unrelated Latin nouns existed.

EDITORIAL STATUS

reviewed

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CITATION REGISTER

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Humilité — étymologie et histoireClassical low elevation, modest state, abasement; Christian humility and modesty

Independently documents the same Latin semantic chronology.

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Humilitas — Lewis and Short Latin DictionaryClassical literal and figurative senses; ecclesiastical good sense opposed to pride

Directly distinguishes the older lowness fields from the positive ecclesiastical specialization.

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EDITORIAL REUSE

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RELATION / 891humility

humilitās → humilitās

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