NODE / 0268attestedLatin
lectiō
a reading; act of reading
- DATE
- Late Latin
- SENSE
- act of reading
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / Italic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:9:lectio:attested:sense:act-of-reading
The noun is derived from Latin legere, to read or gather.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
GO DEEPERderivationestablished
Latin · Latin antiquitylegere
to gather, select, choose; to read
- SOUND
- Latin lectiō is formed from the reading stem associated with legere.
- MEANING
- The act of gathering or selecting develops into reading, then a reading passage.
- CHRONOLOGY
- Latin derivation.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established — The derivation from Latin legere “to read” is explicit.
02DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP
DESCENDANTborrowingestablished
Anglo-French · Anglo-French, c. 1066–1500 · readingleçon
a reading or lesson
- SOUND
- Anglo-French leçon continues Late Latin lectiō through regular Romance sound and spelling development.
- MEANING
- An act or selection of reading remains the source of the lesson sense.
- CHRONOLOGY
- Late Latin to Anglo-French.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established — The source gives Late Latin lection-, lectio as the French source.
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
- Anglo-French leçon continues Late Latin lectiō through regular Romance sound and spelling development.
- MEANING
- An act or selection of reading remains the source of the lesson sense.
HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
STEP 02borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English lesson or lessoun adapts Anglo-French leçon.
- MEANING
- The reading and instructional senses remain connected.
HISTORICAL STEP 031 EDGE
STEP 03historical continuationestablished
- SOUND
- Modern lesson continues the Middle English form with spelling stabilization.
- MEANING
- A reading or assigned text expands into instruction and then something learned from experience.
“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