Where does “librepensador” come from?
librepensador (Spanish) comes from Galician libre, from Old Occitan libre, from Latin Līber, from Old Latin loeber, from French lober, from French lob, from English lob, from English long — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
librepensador (Spanish): freethinker
Ancestry of “librepensador”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Galician | libre | free, not captive, unbound; void; exempt |
| 2 | Old Occitan | libre | book |
| 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 | — |
| 12 | Latin | longus | far, long; extended, prolonged; long; tedious,... |
| 13 | Latin | -ē | — |
| 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 |