Where does “librairie” come from?
librairie (Middle French) comes from Old French librairie, from Latin librarium, from Latin librarius, from Latin Līber, from Old Latin loeber, from French lober, from French lob, from English lob — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
librairie (Middle French): library
Definitions
- library
Ancestry of “librairie”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | librairie | library |
| 2 | Latin | librarium | a bookcase; a library |
| 3 | Latin | librarius | of or pertaining to books; a scribe, copyist,... |
| 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 |