Where does “liber-cugetător” come from?
liber-cugetător (Romanian) comes from Romanian liber, from French libre, from Middle French libre, from Old French libre, from Latin Līber, from Old Latin loeber, from French lober, from French lob — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
liber-cugetător (Romanian): free-thinker
Definitions
- free-thinker
Ancestry of “liber-cugetător”, step by step
liber-cugetător traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Romanian liber
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | liber | free, at liberty |
| 2 | French | libre | free, at liberty; clear, free, vacant; free,... |
| 3 | Middle French | libre | free; at liberty |
| 4 | Old French | libre | free; at liberty |
| 5 | Latin | Līber | — |
| 6 | Old Latin | loeber | — |
| 7 | French | lober | to lob |
| 8 | French | lob | lob |
| 9 | English | lob | To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high... |
| 10 | English | long | Having much distance from one terminating point... |
| 11 | English | longitude | Angular distance measured west or east of the... |
| 12 | Old French | longitude | — |
| 13 | Latin | longitūdō | length, longitude; longness |
| 14 | Latin | longus | far, long; extended, prolonged; long; tedious,... |
| 15 | Latin | -ē | ly; used to form adverbs from adjectives |
| 16 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 17 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 18 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 19 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
via Romanian cugetător
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | cugetător | thinker |
| 2 | Romanian | -ător | Alternative form of -tor |
| 3 | Romanian | judeca | to judge |
| 4 | Latin | jūdicāre | — |
| 5 | Latin | iūdex | judge |
| 6 | Latin | iūs | law, right |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | jowos | oath; law |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂yéw-os | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂yew- | straight, upright, right; right, justice, law |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂óyu | long time, lifetime |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂ey- | vital force, life, age, eternity; day, morning |