librettist

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English libretto

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Hellenic *-tās

Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)

Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.

Latin -istader.

Old French -istebor.

Middle English -ist

English -ist

English librettist

From libretto + -ist.

Noun

librettist (plural librettists)

1. The person who writes a libretto.
   • 2002 March 1, Richard Traubner, “Mozart's Singspiel”, in Playbill‎^[1]:

     It was secondhand‹make that fourth- or fifthhand. This was from an era before any kind of copyright, when librettists were almost expected to steal from other works.

Translations

person who writes a libretto

• Armenian: լիբրետիստ (hy) (libretist)
• Belarusian: лібрэты́ст m (libretýst), лібрэты́стка f (libretýstka)
• Bulgarian: либрети́ст m (libretíst), либрети́стка f (libretístka)
• Czech: libretista m, libretistka (cs) f
• Dutch: librettist (nl) m
• French: librettiste (fr) m
• Galician: libretista m or f
• Georgian: ლიბრეტისტი (libreṭisṭi)
• German: Librettist (de) m, Librettistin (de) f
• Ido: libretisto (io)
• Italian: librettista (it) m or f
• Kazakh: либреттошы (librettoşy)
• Latvian: libretists m, libretiste f
• Macedonian: либрети́ст m (libretíst), либрети́стка f (libretístka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: librettist m

  Nynorsk: librettist m

• Polish: librecista m, librecistka f
• Portuguese: libretista (pt) m or f
• Romanian: libretist (ro) m, libretistă f
• Russian: либретти́ст (ru) m (librettíst), либретти́стка (ru) f (librettístka)
• Slovak: libretista m, libretistka f
• Spanish: libretista (es) m or f
• Tajik: либреттонавис (librettonavis)
• Tatar: либретточы (librettoçı)
• Turkmen: librettoçy
• Ukrainian: лібрети́ст m (libretýst), лібрети́стка f (libretýstka)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French librettiste or Italian librettista.

Noun

librettist m (definite singular librettisten, indefinite plural librettister, definite plural librettistene)

1. (music) a librettist

Related terms

• libretto

References

• “librettist” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “librettist” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French librettiste or Italian librettista.

Noun

librettist m (definite singular librettisten, indefinite plural librettistar, definite plural librettistane)

1. (music) a librettist

Related terms

• libretto

References

• “librettist” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.