GO DEEPERinheritanceestablished
Latin · Latin antiquityquadrāgintā
forty
- SOUND
- Italian quaranta regularly continues Latin quadrāgintā.
- MEANING
- The numeral meaning remains forty.
- SCHOLAR
- Romance and Latin lexicography
- CONFIDENCE
- established
CANONICAL LANGUAGE GRAPH
TRACE A WORD ↗quaranta
forty
- DATE
- Italian
- SENSE
- default
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / Romance
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:13:quaranta:attested
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ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
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DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP
DESCENDANTderivationestablished
Italian / early Italian · Italian / Venetianquarantena
a period of forty days; isolation period
- SOUND
- quarantena is transparently built on the Italian numeral quaranta.
- MEANING
- Forty becomes a conventional duration, then names the isolation itself.
- CHRONOLOGY
- The forty-day practice followed an earlier thirty-day regime.
- SCHOLAR
- CDC · Oxford historical accounts
- CONFIDENCE
- established
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TRANSITIVE 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
Italian / early Italianquaranta→Italian / early Italian · Italian / Venetianquarantenaa period of forty days; isolation period
- SOUND
- quarantena is transparently built on the Italian numeral quaranta.
- MEANING
- Forty becomes a conventional duration, then names the isolation itself.
HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
Italian / early Italianquarantena→French · Middle / early modern Frenchquarantainea period or group of forty; later health isolation
- SOUND
- French quarantaine and Italian quarantena are parallel Romance formations around forty.
- MEANING
- A group or period of forty specialized as a disease-control interval.
HISTORICAL STEP 031 EDGE
Frenchquarantaine→Present-Day English · 1663–todayquarantineisolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease
- SOUND
- English quarantine reflects a French and Italian Romance transmission with adapted spelling and stress.
- MEANING
- A defined period of isolation became the general act or state of protective isolation.
“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.
040
RECORDED EVIDENCE
ATTESTATIONS / FIRST KNOWN USE
NO RECORDED WITNESS ATTACHED.
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EDITORIAL REUSE