Where does “delivrer” come from?
delivrer (Old French) comes from Latin līberō, from Latin līberāre, from Latin Līber, from Old Latin loeber, from French lober, from French lob, from English lob, from English long — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
delivrer (Old French): to set free; to liberate; to give birth; to...
Definitions
- to set free; to liberate; to give birth; to...
Ancestry of “delivrer”, step by step
delivrer traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Latin līberō
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | līberō | to free, set free, liberate |
| 2 | Latin | līberāre | — |
| 3 | Latin | Līber | — |
| 4 | Old Latin | loeber | — |
| 5 | French | lober | to lob |
| 6 | French | lob | lob |
| 7 | English | lob | To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high... |
| 8 | English | long | Having much distance from one terminating point... |
| 9 | English | longitude | Angular distance measured west or east of the... |
| 10 | Old French | longitude | — |
| 11 | Latin | longitūdō | length, longitude; longness |
| 12 | Latin | longus | far, long; extended, prolonged; long; tedious,... |
| 13 | Latin | -ē | ly; used to form adverbs from adjectives |
| 14 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 15 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 16 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 17 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
via Latin dēlīberō
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | dēlīberō | to weigh well, consider maturely, deliberate respecting a thing, ponder |
| 2 | Latin | lībrō | to poise, balance |
| 3 | Latin | lībra | — |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | ζυγόν | yoke, for joining animals; yoke, burden; in... |
| 5 | Proto-Hellenic | dzugón | yoke |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | yugóm | yoke |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | yewg- | to join, to yoke, to tie together |