Where does “liberalite” come from?
liberalite (Middle English) comes from Old French liberalité, from Latin liberalitas, from Latin līberālis, from Latin Līber, from Old Latin loeber, from French lober, from French lob, from English lob — limestone; chalk; the finish line.
Ancestry of “liberalite”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | liberalité | — |
| 2 | Latin | liberalitas | frankness, affability; generosity, liberality |
| 3 | Latin | līberālis | freedom |
| 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 |