NODE / 0274attestedLatin
seligere
to select or choose apart
- DATE
- Latin antiquity
- SENSE
- choose apart
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / Italic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:9:seligere:attested:sense:choose-apart
Latin se- “apart” combines with legere “gather, choose.”
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
GO DEEPERprefixed derivationestablished
Latin · Latin antiquitylegere
to gather, select, choose; to read
- SOUND
- Latin seligere combines se- “apart” with legere “gather, select.”
- MEANING
- Gathering becomes discriminating choice by adding the apart element.
- CHRONOLOGY
- Latin derivation.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established — The source explicitly decomposes se- plus legere.
02DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP
DESCENDANTinflectionestablished
Latin · Latin antiquity · chosen apartselectus
selected, chosen
- SOUND
- Latin selectus is the past participle of seligere.
- MEANING
- The action “choose apart” becomes the result “chosen.”
- CHRONOLOGY
- Latin morphology.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established — The inflectional relation is explicit in the entry.
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
- 2
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 2
- DEEPEST PATH
- 2
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 1
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01inflectionestablished
- SOUND
- Latin selectus is the past participle of seligere.
- MEANING
- The action “choose apart” becomes the result “chosen.”
HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
STEP 02borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- English select borrows Latin selectus with minor English phonological adaptation.
- MEANING
- The Latin “chosen apart” sense becomes English adjectival and verbal selection.
“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