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lexical databasecld-candidatus
Corpus of Latin Dictionaries: candidatus
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- YEAR
- Not recorded
- PUBLISHER
- BBAW
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- lexical database
- EXTERNAL RECORD
- OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
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CONTRARIAN TRUTH CLAIMS
RANKED REVEALS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
RANK 210GRADE A−supports
A candidate was “dressed in white.”
Roman office-seekers signaled purity and visibility with a whitened toga.
*kand-
*kand- → candēre → candidus → candidātus → candidate
candidatusIdentifies the Roman office-seeker through conspicuously white clothing.
candidate dossier ↗truth record ↗77UNVEILING
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SCHOLARLY DISAGREEMENT
DISPUTE POSITIONS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
opensupportsprobable
Did candidates claim moral purity?
The whitened toga is historical and lexical. Reading it as a guaranteed moral-purity claim goes beyond what the word formation alone proves.
candidatusIdentifies the Roman office-seeker through conspicuously white clothing.
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CANONICAL RELATIONSHIP CLAIMS
EDGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
EDGE 31supportsestablished
candidātus → candidus
Latin → Latin · derivation
- SOUND
- Latin candidātus is built from candidus and identifies the person clothed in shining white.
- MEANING
- The white-clad Roman office-seeker became the lexical category for a person seeking office.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Corpus of Latin Dictionaries editors
candidatusOffice-seeker identified by glittering white clothing.
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LEXICAL ATTESTATIONS
WITNESSES REPORTED BY THIS SOURCE
candidateSOURCE-REPORTED
candidātus
Latin political and lexical record
OPEN WITNESS 11 ↗051
COMPARATIVE EVIDENCE
COGNATES, DESCENDANTS, AND RELATIVES
toga candida
Latin cultural phrasehistorical clothing behind the office term
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GEOGRAPHIC AND TEMPORAL CLAIMS
JOURNEY STAGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
stage 1supports
Roman office-seeking practice
Documents candidātus as “clothed in white” and as an office candidate identified by a bright white toga, with multiple Latin textual references.
Lewis and Short: adjective and substantive candidātus · regional070
NON-GENEALOGICAL CONNECTIONS
HISTORICAL CONTEXT, KEPT SEPARATE
No non-genealogical context link currently cites this source.
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WORD-FAMILY REUSE
DOSSIERS THAT DEPEND ON THIS SOURCE
1 entry-scoped citations map reviewed dossier paths onto the canonical claims above.