Where does “librărie” come from?
librărie (Romanian) comes from French librairie, from Middle French librairie, from Old French librairie, from Latin librarium, from Latin librarius, from Latin Līber, from Old Latin loeber, from French lober — shoe.
librărie (Romanian): bookshop, bookstore
Ancestry of “librărie”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | librairie | bookshop or bookstore |
| 2 | Middle French | librairie | — |
| 3 | Old French | librairie | — |
| 4 | Latin | librarium | a bookcase; a library |
| 5 | Latin | librarius | of or pertaining to books; a scribe, copyist,... |
| 6 | Latin | Līber | — |
| 7 | Old Latin | loeber | — |
| 8 | French | lober | to lob |
| 9 | French | lob | lob |
| 10 | English | lob | To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high... |
| 11 | English | long | Having much distance from one terminating point... |
| 12 | English | longitude | Angular distance measured west or east of the... |
| 13 | Old French | longitude | — |
| 14 | Latin | longitūdō | — |
| 15 | Latin | longus | far, long; extended, prolonged; long; tedious,... |
| 16 | Latin | -ē | — |
| 17 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 18 | Latin | calceus | shoe |