Where does “libro” come from?
libro (Esperanto) comes from French livre, from Middle French livre, from Old French livre, from Latin Līber, from Old Latin loeber, from French lober, from French lob, from English lob — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
libro (Esperanto): a book
Definitions
- a book
Ancestry of “libro”, step by step
libro traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via French livre
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | livre | book; pound; grade |
| 2 | Middle French | livre | book |
| 3 | Old French | livre | book; livre; pound |
| 4 | Latin | Līber | — |
| 5 | Old Latin | loeber | — |
| 6 | French | lober | to lob |
| 7 | French | lob | lob |
| 8 | English | lob | To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high... |
| 9 | English | long | Having much distance from one terminating point... |
| 10 | English | longitude | Angular distance measured west or east of the... |
| 11 | Old French | longitude | — |
| 12 | Latin | longitūdō | length, longitude; longness |
| 13 | Latin | longus | far, long; extended, prolonged; long; tedious,... |
| 14 | Latin | -ē | ly; used to form adverbs from adjectives |
| 15 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 16 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 17 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 18 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
via Italian libro
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | libro | book; phloem; foliage; omasum |
| 2 | Italian | dì | day; daytime; second-person singular imperative... |
| 3 | Italian | circolazione | traffic |
| 4 | Latin | circulatio | revolution (circular course), circulation |
| 5 | Latin | circulor | first-person singular present passive indicative... |
| 6 | Latin | circulus | circle; An orbit; A ring, hoop |
| 7 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |