NODE / 0600attestedFrench

étymologie

TRANSLITERATION étymologiePRONUNCIATION /e.ti.mɔ.lɔ.ʒi/

study or explanation of the origin and historical development of words

DATE: Modern French record–today
SENSE: word history discipline
FAMILY: Indo-European / Romance
CANONICAL KEY: node:11:etymologie:attested:sense:word-history-discipline

CNRTL distinguishes several historical senses and dates the modern science sense much later than the earliest spellings.

ANCESTRAL EDGES

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GO DEEPERhistorical continuationestablished

Old French · Old French records from c. 1175 · word history discipline

ethimologie

title reference, word explanation, or learned wordplay depending on the witness

SOUND: French spelling regularized medieval variants such as ethimologie toward étymologie.
MEANING: A learned word used for titles, word explanations, and wordplay developed the modern linguistic senses.
CHRONOLOGY: CNRTL separates the earliest records from the later technical senses.
SCHOLAR: CNRTL Editors · Académie française Editors
CONFIDENCE: established

Étymologie: étymologiesupportsHistory sections 0, A, and B

Separates early spellings and special uses from the modern scientific sense.

ORIGINAL ↗

Étymologie — Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 9e éditioncontextHeadword definition and usage examples

Documents the current French endpoint.

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DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES

THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP

No reviewed descendants currently reuse this node. Absence describes the graph, not the entire history of the form.

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: 0
REVIEWED EDGES: 0
DEEPEST PATH: 0
MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED: 0

No downstream edge has cleared review for this node. This is a graph-coverage statement, not a claim that the historical form produced nothing.

“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.

RECORDED 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.

EDITORIAL REUSE

WORD DOSSIERS USING THIS NODE

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