NODE / 0024boundaryBeyond secure reconstruction
UNKNOWN
No proposed derivation has secured consensus.
- DATE
- unresolved Latin prehistory
- SENSE
- default
- FAMILY
- unclassified
- CANONICAL KEY
- boundary:4:4
The sine cera story is excluded.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
*THE TRAIL ENDS HERE.No reviewed parent edge extends beyond this canonical node.
02DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP
DESCENDANTknowledge boundaryboundary
Latin · antiquitysincerus
whole, clean, pure, sound, genuine
- SOUND
- sine cera cannot regularly yield sincerus and lacks documentary support.
- MEANING
- “Without wax” is a later folk story, not an ancestor.
- SCHOLAR
- OED · Ernout & Meillet
- CONFIDENCE
- boundary — Alternative Latin analyses remain proposed, not settled.
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 01knowledge boundaryboundary
- SOUND
- sine cera cannot regularly yield sincerus and lacks documentary support.
- MEANING
- “Without wax” is a later folk story, not an ancestor.
HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
STEP 02borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- French borrowed Latin sincerus.
- MEANING
- Physical intactness and moral genuineness continued together.
French and Latin historical lexicography2 CITATIONSEDGE 19 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 031 EDGE
STEP 03borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- English borrowed the learned French adjective with later vowel development.
- MEANING
- Material purity shifted toward honesty of feeling and expression.
“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