Where does “Vélib'” come from?
Vélib' (French) comes from French liberté, from Old French liberté, from Latin lībertās, from Latin Līber, from Old Latin loeber, from French lober, from French lob, from English lob — limestone; chalk; the finish line.
Vélib' (French): A bikesharing system used in Paris and other cities in France
Definitions
- A bikesharing system used in Paris and other cities in France
Ancestry of “Vélib'”, step by step
Vélib' traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French liberté
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | liberté | liberty, freedom |
| 2 | Old French | liberté | — |
| 3 | Latin | lībertās | — |
| 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 |
via French vélo
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | vélo | bike, bicycle, cycle |
| 2 | French | vélocipède | a velocipede; bicycles in general; first-person... |
| 3 | Latin | pedes | a walker, one who walks; foot soldier,... |
| 4 | Latin | pēs | a foot, in its senses as |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | μέτρον | something used to measure: measure, rule, weight;... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | -τρον | Forms instrument nouns |
| 7 | Proto-Hellenic | -tron | Forms instrument nouns from verb stems |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -trom | Forms nouns denoting a tool or instrument |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tḗr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |