Where does “livre” come from?
livre (Old French) comes from Latin Līber, from Old Latin loeber, from French lober, from French lob, from English lob, from English long, from English longitude, from Old French longitude — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
livre (Old French): book; livre; pound
Definitions
- book; livre; pound
Ancestry of “livre”, step by step
livre traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Latin Līber
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | Līber | — |
| 2 | Old Latin | loeber | — |
| 3 | French | lober | to lob |
| 4 | French | lob | lob |
| 5 | English | lob | To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high... |
| 6 | English | long | Having much distance from one terminating point... |
| 7 | English | longitude | Angular distance measured west or east of the... |
| 8 | Old French | longitude | — |
| 9 | Latin | longitūdō | length, longitude; longness |
| 10 | Latin | longus | far, long; extended, prolonged; long; tedious,... |
| 11 | Latin | -ē | ly; used to form adverbs from adjectives |
| 12 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 13 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 14 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 15 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |