Where does “librovendejo” come from?
librovendejo (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto libro, from French livre, from Middle French livre, from Old French livre, from Latin Līber, from Old Latin loeber, from French lober, from French lob — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
librovendejo (Esperanto): bookshop, bookstore
Definitions
- bookshop, bookstore
Ancestry of “librovendejo”, step by step
librovendejo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Esperanto libro
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Esperanto | libro | a book |
| 2 | French | livre | book; pound; grade |
| 3 | Middle French | livre | book |
| 4 | Old French | livre | book; livre; pound |
| 5 | Latin | Līber | — |
| 6 | Old Latin | loeber | — |
| 7 | French | lober | to lob |
| 8 | French | lob | lob |
| 9 | English | lob | To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high... |
| 10 | English | long | Having much distance from one terminating point... |
| 11 | English | longitude | Angular distance measured west or east of the... |
| 12 | Old French | longitude | — |
| 13 | Latin | longitūdō | length, longitude; longness |
| 14 | Latin | longus | far, long; extended, prolonged; long; tedious,... |
| 15 | Latin | -ē | ly; used to form adverbs from adjectives |
| 16 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 17 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 18 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 19 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
via Esperanto vendejo
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Esperanto | vendejo | store |
| 2 | Esperanto | -ejo | indicates a place designed for the purpose... |
| 3 | German | -ei | Forming names of sites or buildings where a... |
| 4 | Middle High German | -īe | — |
| 5 | Old French | -ie | indicates a feminine noun, often an abstract one |
| 6 | Latin | -ia | Used to form a feminine abstract noun, usually... |
| 7 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |