Where does “libreria” come from?
libreria (Italian) comes from Spanish librería, from Spanish libro, from Old Spanish libro, from Latin Līber, from Old Latin loeber, from French lober, from French lob, from English lob — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
libreria (Italian): bookshop, bookstore, bookhouse, library;...
Definitions
- bookshop, bookstore, bookhouse, library;...
Ancestry of “libreria”, step by step
libreria traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Spanish librería
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | librería | bookshop, bookstore; bookcase, bookshelf |
| 2 | Spanish | libro | book |
| 3 | Old Spanish | libro | book |
| 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 |