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PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 93

COMPLETE ROUTE ↗
STAGE 02broadNO SINGLE PIN

Latin antiquity

Latin-speaking Roman world

hostile DOSSIER ↗
THE REVIEWED ROUTE CLAIM

Latin hostis is reported in early use as foreigner or stranger and later as enemy. The semantic narrowing turns the reciprocal outsider into the hostile outsider without severing the shared ancestry.

COORDINATES STORED
NO
HONEST TO PLOT
NO
PLACEMENT MODE
broad
TIME PRECISION
unresolved
NUMERIC TIME BOUND
WITHHELD
CLAIM CITATIONS
2
THE TEMPORAL CLAIM

NO YEAR HAS BEEN INVENTED.

The early-to-later Latin semantic change is directly cited, but the reviewed sources do not supply one defensible numeric transition date.

DIRECT STAGE-LEVEL PROVENANCE

AUDIT THE ROUTE CLAIM.

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

  1. supports

    Guest — Word History

    Reports early Latin hostis as foreigner or stranger and explains its later restriction to hostile outsider or enemy, including Varro’s observation of the shift.

    Noun Etymology, hostis semantic-history noteAUDIT SOURCE ↗
  2. supports

    Indo-European Lexicon: ghosti-s

    Lists Latin hostis with guest, stranger, host, and enemy senses and hostilis as the enemy-related adjective within the same reflex family.

    Italic reflexes, hostis and hostilisAUDIT SOURCE ↗