NODE / 0598attestedAncient Greek
ἔτυμον
TRANSLITERATION étymon
the true sense of a word according to its origin
- DATE
- Later Ancient Greek
- SENSE
- technical source form
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / Hellenic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:10:etymon:attested:sense:technical-source-form
LSJ documents the substantivized neuter and its technical sense in later authors.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
1 02DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP
1 03TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE
EVERY REVIEWED BRANCH FROM HERE
3 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
- 2
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 2
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- Latin etymon borrowed the Greek neuter noun with direct learned adaptation.
- MEANING
- The true or original sense of a word remained the technical referent.
Merriam-Webster Editors · Greek lexicography3 CITATIONSEDGE 557 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 022 EDGES
STEP 02borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- English borrowed Latin etymon with learned spelling and English pronunciation.
- MEANING
- The source-word sense was retained and generalized across same-language, foreign-language, and derivational sources.
STEP 02borrowingprobable
- SOUND
- French adapted learned etymon as étymon with French stress and a nasalized final vowel.
- MEANING
- The technical source-form sense was retained while expanding to include attested and reconstructed forms.
“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
0 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
2