Where does “libretist” come from?
libretist (Romanian) comes from Italian librettista, from Italian libretto, from Italian libro, from Italian dì, from Italian circolazione, from Latin circulatio, from Latin circulor, from Latin circulus — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
libretist (Romanian): librettist
Definitions
- librettist
Ancestry of “libretist”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | librettista | librettist |
| 2 | Italian | libretto | booklet |
| 3 | Italian | libro | book; phloem; foliage; omasum |
| 4 | Italian | dì | day; daytime; second-person singular imperative... |
| 5 | Italian | circolazione | traffic |
| 6 | Latin | circulatio | revolution (circular course), circulation |
| 7 | Latin | circulor | first-person singular present passive indicative... |
| 8 | Latin | circulus | circle; An orbit; A ring, hoop |
| 9 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |