Where does “libretti” come from?
libretti (Italian) comes from Italian libretto, from Italian libro, from Italian dì, from Italian circolazione, from Latin circulatio, from Latin circulor, from Latin circulus, from Latin -ulus — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
libretti (Italian): plural of libretto
Ancestry of “libretti”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | libretto | booklet |
| 2 | Italian | libro | book; phloem; foliage; omasum |
| 3 | Italian | dì | day; daytime; second-person singular imperative... |
| 4 | Italian | circolazione | — |
| 5 | Latin | circulatio | revolution , circulation |
| 6 | Latin | circulor | first-person singular present passive indicative... |
| 7 | Latin | circulus | circle; An orbit; A ring, hoop |
| 8 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -elos | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |