NODE / 0456attestedMedieval Latin
omniscientia
all-knowledge or omniscience
- DATE
- Medieval Latin
- SENSE
- all knowledge
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / Italic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:14:omniscientia:attested:sense:all-knowledge
Merriam-Webster analyzes the adjective as a back-formation from this noun.
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 01derivationprobable
- SOUND
- Merriam-Webster analyzes omnisciēns as a back-formation from Medieval Latin omniscientia.
- MEANING
- The abstract state of all-knowledge supplies an adjective meaning all-knowing.
HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
STEP 02borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- English omniscient borrows the learned Latin stem omniscient- with English stress and final-syllable reduction.
- MEANING
- The all-knowing sense is retained and later applied to narrators as well as beings or persons.
Merriam-Webster · American Heritage editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 419 ↗ “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