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Humilité — étymologie et histoire
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- CNRTL · ATILF Editors
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- CNRS · Université de Lorraine
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- EXTERNAL RECORD
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RANK 04GRADE Asupports
Humility is an earth-and-lowness metaphor.
Latin humus “ground” produced humilis “low,” then humilitās “lowness,” before the moral virtue.
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humus “ground” → humilis “low” → humilitās “lowness” → humility
Latin classical and Christian sense chronologyIndependently confirms the classical-to-Christian distinction.
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resolvedsupportsestablished
Was humility originally a positive moral virtue?
Not in every recorded Latin sense. Classical humilitās names physical lowness and low stature, then low rank, insignificance, meanness, or abjectness. Lewis and Short separately marks the good sense opposed to pride as ecclesiastical Latin.
Classical low elevation and abasement; Christian humility and modestyIndependently confirms the chronology.
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EDGE 1006supportsestablished
humilité → humilitās
Old French → Late Latin · borrowing
- SOUND
- Old French humilité adapts Latin humilitās with the Romance noun ending represented as -ité.
- MEANING
- The ecclesiastical virtue and abasement senses continue in French.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- CNRTL · ATILF Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors
Emprunt au latin humilitas; later 10th-century humilitietPublishes the Latin source and early French record.
EDGE 1007supportsestablished
humilitās → humilitās
Late Latin → Latin · semantic specialization
- SOUND
- The Latin form humilitās remains segmentally continuous across the modeled sense boundary.
- MEANING
- Literal and social lowness is positively specialized in ecclesiastical Latin as humility opposed to pride.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Charlton T. Lewis · Charles Short
Classical low elevation, modest state, abasement; Christian humility and modestyIndependently documents the same Latin semantic chronology.
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Classical and Ecclesiastical Latin record
Independently documents the semantic sequence.
Latin classical and Christian sense chronology · broadstage 3supports
Northern France
Publishes the early French horizon and Latin source.
Later 10th-century humilitiet; borrowing from Latin humilitas · regional070
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