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: 2
REVIEWED EDGES: 2
DEEPEST PATH: 2
MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED: 1

lecture2 connected nodes

HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE

STEP 01derivationestablished

Latinlēctus→Latin · Late / Medieval Latinlectūraa reading; act of reading

SOUND: lectūra is a deverbal noun built from the participial stem lēct-.
MEANING: Reading is nominalized as an act or practice.

Latin lexicography1 CITATIONEDGE 58 ↗

Lecture — Word History · lectura ↗

HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE

STEP 02borrowingestablished

Latinlectūra→Present-Day English · 15th century–todaylecturean instructional discourse; later a formal reproof

SOUND: English adapted Late Latin lectūra through the medieval learned tradition.
MEANING: An act of reading became an instructional discourse and later a scolding.

Merriam-Webster editors1 CITATIONEDGE 57 ↗

Lecture — Word History · Etymology and First Known Use ↗

“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

03lecturelēctus · established