Where does “tragalibros” come from?
tragalibros (Spanish) comes from Spanish libro, from Old Spanish libro, from Latin Līber, from Old Latin loeber, from French lober, from French lob, from English lob, from English long — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
tragalibros (Spanish): bookworm
Definitions
- bookworm
Ancestry of “tragalibros”, step by step
tragalibros traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Spanish libro
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | libro | book |
| 2 | Old Spanish | libro | 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 | length, longitude; longness |
| 12 | Latin | longus | far, long; extended, prolonged; long; tedious,... |
| 13 | Latin | -ē | ly; used to form adverbs from adjectives |
| 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 |
via Spanish tragar
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | tragar | to swallow; to swallow, consume, absorb; to gulp,... |
| 2 | Latin | draco | A dragon; a kind of snake or serpent; The... |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | δράκων | dragon, serpent; a serpent-shaped bracelet |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | δέρκομαι | to see, see clearly; to watch; to live |
| 5 | Proto-Hellenic | *dérkomai | — |