NODE / 0076attestedLatin
legendus
that which is to be read
- DATE
- Latin
- SENSE
- default
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / Italic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:9:legendus:attested
Gerundive of legere.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
02DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP
DESCENDANTinflectionestablished
Latin · Medieval Latinlegenda
things 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
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
- 4
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 4
- DEEPEST PATH
- 4
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 1
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01inflectionestablished
- SOUND
- legenda is the feminine singular or neuter plural gerundive formation represented in medieval use.
- MEANING
- “Things to be read” becomes a lexical category.
Latin and medieval lexicography1 CITATIONEDGE 65 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
STEP 02borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- Anglo-French transmitted Medieval Latin legenda.
- MEANING
- Materials appointed for reading became a category of devotional narrative.
HISTORICAL STEP 031 EDGE
STEP 03borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English adapted the Anglo-French form.
- MEANING
- The reading and saint’s-life senses continued.
HISTORICAL STEP 041 EDGE
STEP 04inheritanceestablished
- 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