legend
• noun 1 a traditional story popularly regarded as historical but which is not authenticated. 2 an extremely famous or notorious person: a screen legend. 3 an inscription, caption, or key. • adjective very well known. — ORIGIN from Latin legenda ‘things to be read’, from legere ‘read’.
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