Positive reconstruction · reader-scoped, not an inferred-absence lacuna
This reconstruction covers the readable fraction of Thomas Aquinas's formation -- attested reading and writing only, not the whole of a life.
Thomas Aquinas and Etymologiae
Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to Etymologiae.
Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Isidore of Seville.
Evidence ledger
- Aquinas repeatedly cites Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae throughout the Summa as an authority on the definitions and derivations of terms.