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