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Étymologie: candidat / candidate
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- CNRTL Editors
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- CNRTL
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- historical dictionary
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A candidate was “dressed in white.”
Roman office-seekers signaled purity and visibility with a whitened toga.
*kand-
*kand- → candēre → candidus → candidātus → candidate
ÉtymologieConnects the candidate word family to the toga candida explanation.
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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.
ÉtymologieConnects the candidate family to toga candida while not proving a moral-purity claim.
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EDGE 30supportsestablished
candidate → candidātus
Present-Day English → Latin · borrowing
- SOUND
- English borrowed the learned Latin office term with regular adaptation of ending and stress.
- MEANING
- An office-seeker remained an office-seeker, later broadening to any person under selection.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster · CNRTL editors
ÉtymologieLatin source form.
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
ÉtymologieToga candida explanation.
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French candidat and learned circulation
Records French candidat in 1284, the public-office sense in 1546, later general and academic senses, and a possible German intermediary without making it the English donor.
Étymol. et Hist. I.1–II.2 · regional070
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