Liber

See also Liber, and libër

French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /li.bɛʁ/, SAMPA: /li.bER/

Noun

liber

1. bast

Anagrams

• beilr,
• libre

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Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *lewdʰ-o- (people) Cognates include: Ancient Greek ἐλεύθερος (eleutheros), Sanskrit रोधति (rodhati), Avestan Template:Rfscript raoða, Old High German liut ( > German Leute), Old Norse ljóðr, Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽 (liudan), “‘to grow’”), Old English lēod, Old Prussian ludis, Lithuanian liaudis, Latvian ļaudis, Old Church Slavonic Template:Cyrs (ljudie), Russ. [[люди#Template:Ru|люди]] (ljudi), “‘people’”), Polish lud, Oscan Lúvfreís, Welsh llysiau, Alb. lind.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /ˈliː.ber/

Adjective

Template:La-adj-1&2

1. free, unrestricted
   • Seneca

     Nemo liber est qui corpori servit.

     Nobody is free who is a slave to his body.

   • Captivi ("the captives") by Plautus (English and Latin text)

     Haud istuc rogo. Fuistin liber? - Fui.

     That isn’t what I’m asking about. Were you a freeman? - I was.

Inflection

Template:La-decl-1&2-ER

Related terms

līberālis līberālitās līberāliter līberātiō līberātor līberē

līberī līberō libērta lībertās lībērtīnus lībērtus

Descendants

Catalan: lliure French: libre Galician: libre Italian: libero

Occitan: liure Portuguese: livre Sicilian: [[lìbbiru#Template:Scn|lìbbiru]] Spanish: libre Welsh: [[llyfr#Template:Cy|llyfr]]

Etymology 2

Related to Ancient Greek.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /ˈli.ber/

Noun

liber (genitive librī); m, second declension

1. a book
2. vocative singular of liber

Inflection

Template:La-decl-2nd-ER

Derived terms

• libellus

Related terms

• librāriolus
• librārius

Descendants

Catalan: llibre French: livre Galician: libro Italian: libro

Occitan: libre Portuguese: livro Sicilian: [[libbru#Template:Scn|libbru]] Spanish: libro

Etymology 3

Inflected form of the verb lībo (“‘taste, spill’”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /ˈliː.ber/

Verb

līber

1. first-person singular present Template:Conjugation tag pass subjunctive of lībō.

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