NODE / 0603attestedAncient Greek
ἐτυμολογία
TRANSLITERATION etymología
inquiry into a word’s true sense
- DATE
- Hellenistic and later Greek
- SENSE
- word history discipline
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / Hellenic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:10:etymologia:attested:sense:word-history-discipline
Shared canonical Greek technical 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
- 7
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 7
- DEEPEST PATH
- 3
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 3
HISTORICAL STEP 012 EDGES
STEP 01borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- Latin borrowed Greek ἐτυμολογία.
- MEANING
- A Greek technical concept entered Latin grammatical tradition.
STEP 01derivationestablished
- SOUND
- Greek ἐτυμολογικός adds the adjectival suffix -ικός to ἐτυμολογία.
- MEANING
- The name of an inquiry becomes an adjective meaning belonging to or based on that inquiry.
HISTORICAL STEP 022 EDGES
STEP 02borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- Old French transmitted the learned Latin form.
- MEANING
- Scholarly explanation of a word’s origin continued.
French historical lexicography1 CITATIONEDGE 563 ↗ STEP 02borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- Latin etymologicus adapted Greek etymologikos within learned grammatical vocabulary.
- MEANING
- The adjective retained the sense of belonging to or based on etymology.
HISTORICAL STEP 033 EDGES
STEP 03historical continuationestablished
- 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.
CNRTL Editors · Académie française Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 562 ↗ STEP 03borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- French adapted Latin etymologicus as étymologique with French stress, vowels, and the learned -ique ending.
- MEANING
- The Latin origin-conforming adjective developed the modern French senses “related to etymology” and “conforming to origin.”
ATILF · Académie française Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 579 ↗ STEP 03learned formationprobable
- SOUND
- English drops Latin -us through the learned adjective etymologic and adds adjectival -al; a competing internal etymology + -ical analysis remains visible in the graph.
- MEANING
- A Latin adjective about word origins becomes the English adjective of relation or conformity.
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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