*SET-U

PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 25

COMPLETE ROUTE ↗
STAGE 02regionalMAPPABLE REGION

1284 French record; 1546 public-office sense

French candidat and learned circulation

candidate DOSSIER ↗
THE REVIEWED ROUTE CLAIM

CNRTL records French candidat in 1284 in an elite-soldier sense and in 1546 for a person seeking public office, with later academic use. This documents European circulation without claiming French was necessarily the direct donor to English.

COORDINATES STORED
YES
HONEST TO PLOT
YES
PLACEMENT MODE
regional
TIME PRECISION
range
NUMERIC TIME BOUND
YES
CLAIM CITATIONS
1
THE TEMPORAL CLAIM

THIS STAGE ENTERS THE TIMELINE.

The 1284–1546 interval connects two explicitly dated French records with different senses. It is a documentary range, not the full life span of French candidat or a claim of continuous unchanged meaning.

PLACE IN GLOBAL CHRONOLOGY ↗
DIRECT STAGE-LEVEL PROVENANCE

AUDIT THE ROUTE CLAIM.

Every source below identifies its exact stance, locator, and evidentiary contribution.

  1. supports

    Étymologie: candidat / candidate

    Records French candidat in 1284, the public-office sense in 1546, later general and academic senses, and a possible German intermediary without making it the English donor.

    Étymol. et Hist. I.1–II.2AUDIT SOURCE ↗