NODE / 0826attestedLatin
hūmānus
TRANSLITERATION hūmānus
human; of people
- DATE
- Latin
- SENSE
- human adjective
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / Italic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:9:humanus:attested:sense:human-adjective
A Latin derivative associated with homō, human being.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
GO DEEPERderivationestablished
Latin · Latin · human earthlinghomō
human being; man
- SOUND
- Latin hūmānus belongs to the Latin homō, human-being, family.
- MEANING
- A human adjective is formed from the human noun family.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established
02DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP
DESCENDANTinheritanceestablished
Anglo-French · Anglo-French · human adjectivehumain
human
- SOUND
- Anglo-French humain continues Latin hūmānus through Romance.
- MEANING
- The human adjective continues across the borrowing channel.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established
DESCENDANTinheritanceestablished
Old French · Old French · human adjectivehumain
human
- SOUND
- Old French humain continues Latin hūmānus through Romance.
- MEANING
- The human adjective continues.
- SCHOLAR
- American Heritage Dictionary Editors
- 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
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- REVIEWED EDGES
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- DEEPEST PATH
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- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 1
HISTORICAL STEP 012 EDGES
STEP 01inheritanceestablished
- SOUND
- Anglo-French humain continues Latin hūmānus through Romance.
- MEANING
- The human adjective continues across the borrowing channel.
Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 828 ↗ STEP 01inheritanceestablished
- SOUND
- Old French humain continues Latin hūmānus through Romance.
- MEANING
- The human adjective continues.
American Heritage Dictionary Editors1 CITATIONEDGE 844 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 022 EDGES
STEP 02borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English humain was borrowed through Anglo-French humain.
- MEANING
- The human adjective crosses through French into English.
STEP 02competing borrowingproposed
- SOUND
- American Heritage labels the immediate French source Old French, while Merriam-Webster labels it Anglo-French.
- MEANING
- The human adjective crosses through medieval French into English.
American Heritage Dictionary Editors1 CITATIONEDGE 843 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 031 EDGE
STEP 03continuationestablished
- SOUND
- Modern human continues Middle English humain with modern spelling.
- MEANING
- Human reference remains while noun and adjective uses develop.
Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 826 ↗ “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
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