NODE / 0663attestedLatin
verbum
TRANSLITERATION verbum
verb; predicate word
- DATE
- Latin grammatical tradition
- SENSE
- grammar word class
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / Italic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:9:verbum:attested:sense:grammar-word-class
Lewis and Short document the specialized grammatical sense in Varro and Cicero.
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
- 3
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 1
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- Anglo-French verbe continues Latin verbum with Romance loss of the final syllable.
- MEANING
- The Latin grammatical use becomes the French and English class name.
HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
STEP 02borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English verbe borrows Anglo-French verbe with minor English phonological adaptation.
- MEANING
- The grammatical term is transmitted without a return to the broader meaning word.
HISTORICAL STEP 031 EDGE
STEP 03continuationestablished
- SOUND
- English verb regularizes the Middle English final vowel away while preserving the learned stem.
- MEANING
- The specialized grammatical class remains central.
“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