LEGEND

noun Etymology: Middle English ~e, from Anglo-French & Medieval Latin; Anglo-French ~e, from Medieval Latin ~a, from Latin, feminine of ~us, gerundive of legere to gather, select, read; akin to Greek legein to gather, say, logos speech, word, reason Date: 14th century 1. a story coming down from the past, a body of such stories , a popular myth of recent origin, a person or thing that inspires ~s, the subject of a ~ , 2. an inscription or title on an object (as a coin), caption 2b, an explanatory list of the symbols on a map or chart