Where does “librie” come from?
librie (Middle Dutch) comes from Middle French librairie, from Old French librairie, from Latin librarium, from Latin librarius, from Latin Līber, from Old Latin loeber, from French lober, from French lob — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
Ancestry of “librie”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | librairie | library |
| 2 | Old French | librairie | library |
| 3 | Latin | librarium | a bookcase; a library |
| 4 | Latin | librarius | of or pertaining to books; a scribe, copyist,... |
| 5 | Latin | Līber | — |
| 6 | Old Latin | loeber | — |
| 7 | French | lober | to lob |
| 8 | French | lob | lob |
| 9 | English | lob | To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high... |
| 10 | English | long | Having much distance from one terminating point... |
| 11 | English | longitude | Angular distance measured west or east of the... |
| 12 | Old French | longitude | — |
| 13 | Latin | longitūdō | length, longitude; longness |
| 14 | Latin | longus | far, long; extended, prolonged; long; tedious,... |
| 15 | Latin | -ē | ly; used to form adverbs from adjectives |
| 16 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 17 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 18 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 19 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |