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Lewis’s Elementary Latin Dictionary
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MODERN ENTRY POINTS
WORD DOSSIERS
nounhistorical form
fiction
Invented narrative, imaginative creation, pretense, or legal assumption; borrowed through French from Latin fictio, an action of shaping, molding, or feigning.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗nounhistorical form
humiliation
The act, state, or instance of humiliating or being humiliated; degradation, disgrace, or shame.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗nounhistorical form
legislation
The making of laws or laws collectively; from French and Late Latin legislatio, a law-proposing or law-bearing formation.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗nounhistorical form
lesson
A unit of instruction or something learned, descending through a word that first named an act or selection of reading.
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ATTESTED / RECONSTRUCTED / BOUNDARY
HISTORICAL FORMS
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Latin / Indo-European
-tiō
suffix of verbal action
- DATE
- Latin antiquity
- MATCH
- transliteration
- DOSSIERS
- 0
Latin / Indo-European
fictiō
action of shaping or molding; feigning; pretense; legal fiction
- DATE
- Latin antiquity
- MATCH
- transliteration
- DOSSIERS
- 1
Latin / Indo-European
fig-
variant stem used in the action noun fictiō
- DATE
- Latin bound stem
- MATCH
- gloss
- DOSSIERS
- 1
Late Latin / Indo-European
humiliātiō
action of lowering; abasement; subduing or humbling through mortification
- DATE
- Christian and Late Latin
- MATCH
- transliteration
- DOSSIERS
- 1
Latin / Indo-European
lectiō
a reading; act of reading
- DATE
- Late Latin
- MATCH
- gloss
- DOSSIERS
- 1
Latin / Indo-European
lātiō
a bearing, bringing, or proposing
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- Latin and Medieval Latin
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- gloss
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- 0
Medieval Latin / Indo-European
lēgislātiō, lēgislātiōnem
proposal or bearing of a law; later a body of laws
- DATE
- Medieval and Late Latin
- MATCH
- gloss
- DOSSIERS
- 1
Beyond secure reconstruction
UNKNOWN
No deeper parent is promoted for -tiō in this dossier.
- DATE
- before the reviewed Latin -tiō component
- MATCH
- gloss
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- 0
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WHERE INTERPRETATION IS TESTED
CLAIMS & DISPUTES
SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 2
resolvedestablishedposition text
Did fiction originally mean only an invented story?
No. Latin fictiō includes shaping or molding, feigning, pretense, and legal fiction; Middle English begins with invention of the mind.
resolvedestablishedposition text
Does fiction descend from figure?
No. Latin fictiō and figūra are sibling formations in the fingere and *dheigh- family; neither English word is the parent of the other.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 4
RANK 13GRADE Aranked reveal
Legislation came before legislate.
The noun preserves a Latin law-bearing or law-proposing compound. English legislate was later back-formed from the already existing noun family.
RANK 16GRADE Aranked reveal
Humiliation is evidenced in English before humiliate.
Chaucer’s Middle English humiliacioun occurs in a humility passage; Merriam-Webster reports the English verb humiliate only circa 1534. Christian Latin and French preserve lowering, abasement, mortification, and self-humbling before current definitions center degradation, disgrace, and shame.
RANK 133GRADE Aranked reveal
Fiction is historically something shaped.
Latin fictiō names shaping or molding, feigning, and pretense before English literary narrative becomes one major center.
RANK 203GRADE Aranked reveal
A lesson began as a reading.
Anglo-French leçon and Late Latin lectio name reading before the word expands into instruction and something learned from experience.
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BOOKS / DICTIONARIES / ARTICLES / DATABASES
SOURCES
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FIRST USES & HISTORICAL OBJECTS
ATTESTATION WITNESSES
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