NODE / 0010attestedLatin
etymologia
explanation of a word by its origin
- DATE
- antiquity–medieval
- SENSE
- default
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / Italic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:9:etymologia:attested
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
02DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP
03TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE
EVERY REVIEWED BRANCH FROM HERE
This is the complete downstream closure currently supported by the canonical graph. Every displayed step is a real reviewed edge with its own sound claim, meaning claim, scholar, confidence, and citations.
- UNIQUE DESCENDANT NODES
- 5
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 5
- DEEPEST PATH
- 3
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 4
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- Old French transmitted the learned Latin form.
- MEANING
- Scholarly explanation of a word’s origin continued.
French historical lexicography1 CITATIONEDGE 8 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
STEP 02borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- English adapted the learned French form and later aligned spelling with the classical model.
- MEANING
- The technical term broadened into the modern historical discipline.
OED · historical lexicography1 CITATIONEDGE 7 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 033 EDGES
STEP 03derivationestablished
- SOUND
- English adds the person-forming suffix -ist to etymology.
- MEANING
- The discipline name becomes the title of a specialist who studies word histories.
Merriam-Webster Editors · Douglas Harper2 CITATIONSEDGE 593 ↗ STEP 03derivationestablished
- SOUND
- English adds verb-forming -ize to etymology.
- MEANING
- The name of the inquiry becomes the act of discovering, stating, or studying etymologies.
Merriam-Webster Editors · Douglas Harper2 CITATIONSEDGE 600 ↗ STEP 03competing derivationproposed
- SOUND
- English etymological is alternatively segmented as etymology plus -ical.
- MEANING
- The discipline noun becomes a relational adjective.
“Every” means every descendant in the reviewed SET-U graph. It does not convert missing scholarship or missing ingestion into a claim of historical completeness. The coverage ledger remains the honest denominator.
04RECORDED EVIDENCE
ATTESTATIONS / FIRST KNOWN USE
NO RECORDED WITNESS ATTACHED.The reviewed graph does not yet attach a source-reported or directly inspected witness to this canonical form.
05EDITORIAL REUSE
WORD DOSSIERS USING THIS NODE