NODE / 0169attestedLatin
nescius
ignorant; not knowing
- DATE
- Latin antiquity
- SENSE
- ignorant adjective
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / Italic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:9:nescius:attested:sense:ignorant-adjective
Latin adjective derived within the negative knowing family.
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
- 3
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 3
- DEEPEST PATH
- 3
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 1
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- Latin nescius passes through Romance without preserving the full Latin ending.
- MEANING
- Ignorance becomes foolishness or simplicity in the French adjective.
HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
STEP 02borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- Anglo-French nice enters Middle English with spelling preserved and pronunciation adapted to English.
- MEANING
- Silly or simple expands into foolish, wanton, coy, fastidious, and precise senses.
HISTORICAL STEP 031 EDGE
STEP 03semantic continuationestablished
- SOUND
- The inherited spelling and /aɪ/ pronunciation remain stable as the modern sense profile settles.
- MEANING
- Foolish, wanton, and fastidious senses move through precise and discriminating toward pleasant, agreeable, and kind.
“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
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