NODE / 0616attestedAncient Greek
ἐτυμολογικός
TRANSLITERATION etymologikós
belonging to or based on etymology
- DATE
- post-Classical Ancient Greek, broad horizon
- SENSE
- etymology related adjective
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / Hellenic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:10:etymologikos:attested:sense:etymology-related-adjective
Merriam-Webster names Greek etymologikos as the source of Latin etymologicus; the broad chronology is not a first-attestation claim.
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
- 3
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 3
- DEEPEST PATH
- 2
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 2
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01borrowingestablished
- 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 022 EDGES
STEP 02borrowingestablished
- 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 02learned 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.
“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