Skip to content
Vinony

librettist

noun

  1. author of the libretto (words) of an opera or a similar extended musical composition
L323237 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

noun

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.

  1. The person who writes a libretto.

    “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.”