820 canonical forms + 578 route stages.
THE TIMELINE ATLAS
JOURNEY ATLAS ↗FORM / ROUTE / BOUND
1398 REVIEWED EVENTSLANGUAGE
IN TIME.
One cross-word chronology for every defensibly bounded form and journey stage—without converting a vague historical label into a fake year.
A reviewed graph bound, not a claim of an earliest human word.
Only stages with directly cited numeric bounds enter this atlas.
Labels remain visible in Journey Atlas, but not parsed into false years.
001398 MATCHING EVENTS
FILTER THE CHRONOLOGY
WHEN DID THE EVIDENCE LAND?
TWO CLOCKS.
NO FALSE PRECISION.
FORM CHRONOLOGY dates a canonical linguistic form or reconstruction in the lexical graph.
ROUTE CHRONOLOGY dates a geographic or transmission stage in a word’s journey.
They can share an era band, but they are never silently treated as the same kind of claim.
CROSS-WORD CHRONOLOGY / EARLIEST BOUND FIRST
THE EVIDENCE IN TIME
Antiquity30 ON THIS PAGE
300 BCE–500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMLatin
lēctus
Latin antiquity
read; gathered; chosen
300 BCE–500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMLatin
intellegere / intelligere
Latin antiquity
to understand, perceive, discern
300 BCE–500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMLatin
colligere
Latin antiquity
to gather together, assemble, accumulate
300 BCE–500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMLatin
calculus
Latin antiquity
pebble; counting-board pebble; calculation; account
300 BCE–500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMLatin
hostīlis
Latin antiquity
of or characteristic of an enemy
300 BCE–500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMLatin
hospitālis
Latin antiquity
of a guest; hospitable
300 BCE–500 CErange
ROUTE STAGELatin-speaking Mediterranean
candid
Latin antiquity
Candēre and candidus name shining, brightness, and whiteness.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The broad interval locates the reviewed Latin lexical horizon, not one moment of semantic innovation.
AUDIT RECORD ↗300 BCE–500 CErange
ROUTE STAGELatin-speaking Mediterranean
candor
Latin antiquity
Latin candor names brightness, radiance, whiteness, and favorable disposition.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The interval locates the reviewed Latin horizon rather than one first occurrence.
AUDIT RECORD ↗300 BCE–500 CErange
ROUTE STAGERoman world
calculus
Latin antiquity
Latin calculus names a pebble, a bodily stone, a counting-board pebble, a calculation, or an account.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The interval locates the reviewed Latin lexical horizon, not the first use of each sense.
AUDIT RECORD ↗300 BCE–500 CErange
ROUTE STAGERoman world
intellect
Latin antiquity
Latin intellectus and intellegere name perception, discernment, and understanding.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The interval locates the reviewed Latin lexical horizon rather than one first occurrence.
AUDIT RECORD ↗300 BCE–500 CErange
ROUTE STAGERoman world
intelligent
Latin antiquity
Intelligēns and intellegere name understanding, perception, and discernment.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The broad interval locates the reviewed Latin lexical horizon rather than one first occurrence.
AUDIT RECORD ↗300 BCE–500 CErange
ROUTE STAGERoman world
conscience
Latin antiquity
Cōnscientia, cōnsciēns, and cōnscīre express knowledge, awareness, shared or intensive knowing, and moral consciousness.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The interval locates the reviewed Latin family rather than one semantic innovation.
AUDIT RECORD ↗300 BCE–500 CErange
ROUTE STAGERoman world
conscious
Latin antiquity
Latin cōnscius names knowing, awareness, and knowledge shared with another person.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The interval locates the reviewed Latin lexical horizon rather than one first occurrence.
AUDIT RECORD ↗300 BCE–500 CErange
ROUTE STAGERoman world
prescient
Latin antiquity
Praescīre and praesciēns combine before with knowing to express foreknowledge.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The interval locates the reviewed Latin lexical horizon rather than one first occurrence.
AUDIT RECORD ↗300 BCE–500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMLatin
candor
Latin antiquity
brightness, radiance, whiteness; favorable disposition
300 BCE–500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMLatin
intellectus
Latin antiquity
perception, discernment, or understanding
300 BCE–500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMLatin
hospitālitās
Latin antiquity
entertainment or reception of guests
300 BCE–500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMLatin
cōnscīre
Latin antiquity
to know with another, be mutually aware, or be conscious of
300 BCE–500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMLatin
cōnscius
Latin antiquity
knowing or aware; also knowing something along with another person
300 BCE–500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMLatin
praescīre
Latin antiquity
to know beforehand or in advance
300 BCE–600 CErange
ROUTE STAGERoman world
calculator
Latin antiquity and Late Latin
Calculus, calculāre, and calculātor connect counting pebbles, computation, and the human arithmetic teacher.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The broad interval locates the reviewed Latin lexical family rather than one coinage event.
AUDIT RECORD ↗300 BCE–600 CErange
ROUTE STAGEAncient Greek learned tradition
étymologie
Hellenistic and later Greek
Greek ἐτυμολογία supplies the learned compound behind the Latin and French word.
300 BCE–600 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAncient Greek
ἔτυμον
Later Ancient Greek
the true sense of a word according to its origin
300 BCE–600 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAncient Greek
ἐτυμολογία
Hellenistic and later Greek
inquiry into a word’s true sense
300 BCE–600 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAncient Greek
ἐτυμολογικός
post-Classical Ancient Greek, broad horizon
belonging to or based on etymology
300 BCE–900 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle Persian
šāh
Middle Persian
king, sovereign
300 BCE–900 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle Persian
mān-
Middle Persian
remain, wait
200 BCE–500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMLatin
sincerus
antiquity
whole, clean, pure, sound, genuine
200 BCE–500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMLatin
astrum
Latin antiquity
star; constellation
200 BCE–500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMLatin
collēctus
Latin antiquity
gathered together
UNBOUNDED IS
A REAL RESULT.
Stages without source-backed numeric bounds stay in their complete Journey Atlas route, carry an explicit temporal note, and remain absent here until the evidence supports normalization. The missing point is visible work—not permission to guess.