NODE / 0431attestedLatin
calculātor
a teacher of arithmetic; a calculating person
- DATE
- Latin antiquity and Late Latin
- SENSE
- arithmetic teacher
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / Italic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:9:calculator:attested:sense:arithmetic-teacher
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
- 2
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 2
- DEEPEST PATH
- 2
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 1
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01borrowingestablished
- 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 021 EDGE
STEP 02inheritanceestablished
- 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.
“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
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05EDITORIAL REUSE
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