Where does “librettist” come from?
librettist (Norwegian Nynorsk) comes from Italian librettista, from Italian libretto, from Italian libro, from Italian dì, from Italian circolazione, from Latin circulatio, from Latin circulor, from Latin circulus — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
librettist (Norwegian Nynorsk): a librettist
Ancestry of “librettist”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | librettista | librettist |
| 2 | Italian | libretto | booklet |
| 3 | Italian | libro | book; phloem; foliage; omasum |
| 4 | Italian | dì | day; daytime; second-person singular imperative... |
| 5 | Italian | circolazione | — |
| 6 | Latin | circulatio | revolution , circulation |
| 7 | Latin | circulor | first-person singular present passive indicative... |
| 8 | Latin | circulus | circle; An orbit; A ring, hoop |
| 9 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -elos | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |