Where does “libretto” come from?
Libretto comes from Italian libretto, from Latin liber meaning "book," ultimately deriving from Proto-Indo-European h₁lewdʰ-.
libretto (English): The text of a dramatic musical work, such as an...
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- The text of a dramatic musical work, such as an...
Ancestry of “libretto”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | libretto | booklet |
| 2 | Italian | libro | book; phloem; foliage; omasum |
| 3 | Italian | dì | day; daytime; second-person singular imperative... |
| 4 | Italian | circolazione | traffic |
| 5 | Latin | circulatio | revolution (circular course), circulation |
| 6 | Latin | circulor | first-person singular present passive indicative... |
| 7 | Latin | circulus | circle; An orbit; A ring, hoop |
| 8 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |