Where does “Stadtbücherei” come from?
Stadtbücherei (German) comes from German Bücherei, from Latin libraria, from Latin Līber, from Old Latin loeber, from French lober, from French lob, from English lob, from English long — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
Stadtbücherei (German): town library, city library
Definitions
- town library, city library
Ancestry of “Stadtbücherei”, step by step
Stadtbücherei traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Bücherei
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Bücherei | library |
| 2 | Latin | libraria | nominative feminine singular of librārius;... |
| 3 | Latin | Līber | — |
| 4 | Old Latin | loeber | — |
| 5 | French | lober | to lob |
| 6 | French | lob | lob |
| 7 | English | lob | To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high... |
| 8 | English | long | Having much distance from one terminating point... |
| 9 | English | longitude | Angular distance measured west or east of the... |
| 10 | Old French | longitude | — |
| 11 | Latin | longitūdō | length, longitude; longness |
| 12 | Latin | longus | far, long; extended, prolonged; long; tedious,... |
| 13 | Latin | -ē | ly; used to form adverbs from adjectives |
| 14 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 15 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 16 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 17 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
via German Stadt
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Stadt | city; town; city center |
| 2 | Middle High German | stat | bank, shore |
| 3 | Old High German | stat | A city; a town; A site; a place; a spot |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | stadi | place |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | stadiz | place, location |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | stéh₂tis | standing, position |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | *steh₂- | — |