NODE / 0075attestedLatin
legenda
things to be read
- DATE
- Medieval Latin
- SENSE
- default
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / Italic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:9:legenda:attested
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
GO DEEPERinflectionestablished
Latin · Latinlegendus
that which is to be read
- SOUND
- legenda is the feminine singular or neuter plural gerundive formation represented in medieval use.
- MEANING
- “Things to be read” becomes a lexical category.
- SCHOLAR
- Latin and medieval lexicography
- CONFIDENCE
- established
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 transmitted Medieval Latin legenda.
- MEANING
- Materials appointed for reading became a category of devotional narrative.
HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
STEP 02borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English adapted the Anglo-French form.
- MEANING
- The reading and saint’s-life senses continued.
HISTORICAL STEP 031 EDGE
STEP 03inheritanceestablished
- SOUND
- Final unstressed -e was lost and spelling stabilized as legend.
- MEANING
- Saintly reading matter expanded to inherited story, inscription, and explanatory key.
“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