NODE / 0488attestedMedieval Latin
lēgislātiō, lēgislātiōnem
proposal or bearing of a law; later a body of laws
- DATE
- Medieval and Late Latin
- SENSE
- law bearing compound
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / Italic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:14:legislatio legislationem:attested:sense:law-bearing-compound
The compound contains legis, genitive of lēx, and lātio, bearing or proposing.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
GO DEEPERcompound componentestablished
Latin · Latin antiquitylēx
law, statute, rule, agreement
- SOUND
- Latin legislatio contains legis, the genitive of lēx “law”; this path follows the law component while lātio is modeled separately.
- MEANING
- Law is the object being proposed, borne forward, or enacted.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster · CNRTL · Etymonline editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established — The lātio carrying/proposing component is a second canonical parent.
GO DEEPERcompound componentestablished
Latin · Latin and Medieval Latin · bearing proposing actionlātiō
a bearing, bringing, or proposing
- SOUND
- The lātio component is preserved inside legislatio alongside genitive legis; no sound change beyond compounding is asserted.
- MEANING
- Bearing or proposing supplies the action applied to a law.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster · CNRTL · Etymonline editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established — This edge completes the two-component model with lēx / lēgis.
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
- French législation borrows Medieval or Late Latin legislatio with regular Romance adaptation.
- MEANING
- Proposal or bearing of a law develops into law-making authority and a body of laws.
HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
STEP 02borrowingprobable
- SOUND
- English legislation borrows French législation with learned English stress and pronunciation.
- MEANING
- The making of laws and the resulting body of laws remain central while legislative-business senses develop.
“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