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NODE / 1005attestedLate Latin

humilitās

TRANSLITERATION humilitās

lowness in a positive moral sense; humility opposed to pride

DATE
Ecclesiastical Latin
SENSE
virtue opposed pride
FAMILY
Indo-European / Italic
CANONICAL KEY
node:77:humilitas:attested:sense:virtue-opposed-pride

Lewis and Short explicitly distinguishes this good ecclesiastical sense from the older Latin fields.

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Latin · Classical Latin · physical social lowness

humilitās

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

SOUND
The Latin form humilitās remains segmentally continuous across the modeled sense boundary.
MEANING
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
Charlton T. Lewis · Charles Short
CONFIDENCE
established — This is a sense-specific graph split, not a claim that two unrelated Latin nouns existed.
Humilité — étymologie et histoiresupportsClassical 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 DictionarysupportsClassical 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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DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES

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DESCENDANTborrowingestablished
Old French · Old French, attested from the later 10th century · humble quality noun

humilité

quality of one who is humble; abasement before God

SOUND
Old French humilité adapts Latin humilitās with the Romance noun ending represented as -ité.
MEANING
The ecclesiastical virtue and abasement senses continue in French.
CHRONOLOGY
CNRTL reports a later-tenth-century French record.
SCHOLAR
CNRTL · ATILF Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors
CONFIDENCE
established — CNRTL treats the French noun as borrowed from Latin; this edge does not invent an unattested intermediate form.
Humility — American Heritage DictionarysupportsOld French, from Late Latin humilitās

Publishes the French-to-Latin route.

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Humilité — étymologie et histoiresupportsEmprunt au latin humilitas; later 10th-century humilitiet

Publishes the Latin source and early French record.

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humility3 connected nodes
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01borrowingestablished
Late Latinhumilitās→Old French · Old French, attested from the later 10th centuryhumilitéquality of one who is humble; abasement before God
SOUND
Old French humilité adapts Latin humilitās with the Romance noun ending represented as -ité.
MEANING
The ecclesiastical virtue and abasement senses continue in French.
CNRTL · ATILF Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 1006 ↗
Humility — American Heritage Dictionary · Old French, from Late Latin humilitās ↗Humilité — étymologie et histoire · Emprunt au latin humilitas; later 10th-century humilitiet ↗
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STEP 03orthographic continuationestablished
Middle Englishhumilite→Present-Day English · 14th century–todayhumilityfreedom from pride or arrogance; the quality or state of being humble
SOUND
Middle English humilite continues as humility with modern English -ity spelling and pronunciation.
MEANING
The inherited humble-quality sense continues into the current freedom-from-pride center.
American Heritage Dictionary Editors · Merriam-Webster Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 1004 ↗
Humility — Definition, Use, and First Known Use · Definition and First Known Use: 14th century ↗Humility — American Heritage Dictionary · Etymology: Middle English humilite ↗

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