Where does “librarianship” come from?
Librarianship derives from English librarian, which comes from English library, from Italian -ana, Proto-Germanic -skapiz, Latin -anus, Latin librarium, and Latin liber meaning book or free.
librarianship (English): the act of operating of a library; service as a...
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- the act of operating of a library; service as a...
Ancestry of “librarianship”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | librarian | The keeper, manager of a library; One who cares... |
| 2 | English | library | An institution which holds books and/or other... |
| 3 | Middle English | librarie | library, reading room; bookshelf, bookcase;... |
| 4 | Anglo-Norman French | librarie | — |
| 5 | Old French | librairie | library |
| 6 | Latin | librarium | a bookcase; a library |
| 7 | Latin | librarius | of or pertaining to books; a scribe, copyist,... |
| 8 | Latin | Līber | — |
| 9 | Old Latin | loeber | — |
| 10 | French | lober | to lob |
| 11 | French | lob | lob |
| 12 | English | lob | To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high... |
| 13 | English | long | Having much distance from one terminating point... |
| 14 | English | longitude | Angular distance measured west or east of the... |
| 15 | Old French | longitude | — |
| 16 | Latin | longitūdō | length, longitude; longness |
| 17 | Latin | longus | far, long; extended, prolonged; long; tedious,... |
| 18 | Latin | -ē | ly; used to form adverbs from adjectives |
| 19 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |