Where does “librairie” come from?
librairie (Old French) comes from Latin librarium, from Latin librarius, from Latin Līber, from Old Latin loeber, from French lober, from French lob, from English lob, from English long — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
librairie (Old French): library
Definitions
- library
Ancestry of “librairie”, step by step
librairie traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Latin librarium
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | librarium | a bookcase; a library |
| 2 | Latin | librarius | of or pertaining to books; a scribe, copyist,... |
| 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 libraria
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | libraria | nominative feminine singular of librārius;... |