NODE / 0111attestedLatin
calx
lime, limestone
- DATE
- Latin antiquity
- SENSE
- default
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / Italic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:9:calx:attested
A proposed base for calculus; the derivation is explicitly disputed.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
*THE TRAIL ENDS HERE.No securely reviewed ancestor extends beyond this node. 3 evidence paths stop at this boundary.
INSPECT 3 CITED BOUNDARY CLAIMS
02DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP
DESCENDANTproposed derivationproposed
Latin · Latin antiquitycalculus
pebble; counting-board pebble; calculation; account
- SOUND
- Calculus has traditionally been treated as an irregular diminutive of calx, but the phonology and meanings are problematic and a shared non-Indo-European source with a Greek stone-word has been proposed.
- MEANING
- A small stone or pebble may connect to lime or limestone; the route is unsettled.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster editors summarizing Festus and Beekes
- CONFIDENCE
- proposed — The calculus-to-calx derivation is not secure.
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
- 8
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 8
- DEEPEST PATH
- 5
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 3
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01proposed derivationproposed
- SOUND
- Calculus has traditionally been treated as an irregular diminutive of calx, but the phonology and meanings are problematic and a shared non-Indo-European source with a Greek stone-word has been proposed.
- MEANING
- A small stone or pebble may connect to lime or limestone; the route is unsettled.
Merriam-Webster editors summarizing Festus and Beekes2 CITATIONSEDGE 95 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 022 EDGES
STEP 02derivationestablished
- SOUND
- Calculāre is derived from calculus.
- MEANING
- Manipulating counting pebbles becomes the general act of computation.
STEP 02borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- English borrowed Latin calculus without a mediating vernacular form in the reviewed route; pronunciation and plural behavior were anglicized.
- MEANING
- Latin counting and reckoning specialize into mathematical systems while the bodily-stone sense also survives.
HISTORICAL STEP 032 EDGES
STEP 03inflectionestablished
- SOUND
- Calculātus is the past participle of calculāre.
- MEANING
- The completed act of reckoning supplies the borrowed form.
Latin morphology · Merriam-Webster editors1 CITATIONEDGE 93 ↗ STEP 03derivationestablished
- SOUND
- Latin calculātor is an agent noun in -tor formed from the stem calculā- of calculāre.
- MEANING
- The act of counting or computing is recast as the person who performs it.
HISTORICAL STEP 042 EDGES
STEP 04borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- English borrowed the learned participial stem with regular English stress and suffix treatment.
- MEANING
- Counting and reckoning broadened into estimation, intention, and deliberate planning.
STEP 04borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English calkelatour adapts Latin calculātor with vernacular vowel and consonant spelling.
- MEANING
- The Latin arithmetic teacher or reckoner remains a person who counts or computes.
HISTORICAL STEP 051 EDGE
STEP 05inheritanceestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English calkelatour loses unstressed material and stabilizes with the learned agent ending -or as calculator.
- MEANING
- The human reckoner sense survives while the agent label later transfers to mechanical and electronic calculating devices.
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04RECORDED EVIDENCE
ATTESTATIONS / FIRST KNOWN USE
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05EDITORIAL REUSE
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