Etymology

libro-

Today it means: book Full definition →

Latin liber ← Proto-Italic *luβros ← Proto-Indo-European *lubʰrós
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*lewbʰ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*lubʰrós
  3. Proto-Italic*luβros
  4. Latinliber
  5. English todaylibro-

From Latin liber (“book”, stem libr-) + English -o-.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.