NODE / 0494attestedLatin
ferre
to bear, carry, bring, report, or propose
- DATE
- Latin antiquity
- SENSE
- carry propose
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / Italic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:9:ferre:attested:sense:carry-propose
An irregular Latin verb with lātum / lātus in its paradigm.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
GO DEEPERinheritanceestablished
Proto-Indo-European · Proto-Indo-European prehistory · carry bear*bher-
to carry or bear
- SOUND
- Latin ferre continues the Indo-European *bher- carrying family through inherited Italic phonology and an irregular paradigm.
- MEANING
- The core carrying and bearing sense remains stable while Latin adds proposing, reporting, and enduring extensions.
- SCHOLAR
- American Heritage Indo-European Roots · Latin lexicography
- CONFIDENCE
- established — The lexical comparison is strong; the exact prehistoric inflectional history is not compressed into one rule.
02DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP
DESCENDANTderivationestablished
Latin · Latin and Medieval Latin · bearing proposing actionlātiō
a bearing, bringing, or proposing
- SOUND
- Latin lātio is analyzed through lātum / lātus, the suppletive participial material used with ferre.
- MEANING
- The general action of bearing or bringing specializes to proposing something for acceptance.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster · CNRTL · Latin lexicography
- CONFIDENCE
- established — The irregular paradigm is represented as a directly cited derivational relation, not a fabricated regular sound law.
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
- 4
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 4
- DEEPEST PATH
- 4
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 1
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01derivationestablished
- SOUND
- Latin lātio is analyzed through lātum / lātus, the suppletive participial material used with ferre.
- MEANING
- The general action of bearing or bringing specializes to proposing something for acceptance.
Merriam-Webster · CNRTL · Latin lexicography3 CITATIONSEDGE 461 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
STEP 02compound componentestablished
- 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.
Merriam-Webster · CNRTL · Etymonline editors3 CITATIONSEDGE 460 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 031 EDGE
STEP 03borrowingestablished
- 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 041 EDGE
STEP 04borrowingprobable
- 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