liber

See also Liber, and libër

French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /li.bɛʁ/, SAMPA: /li.bER/

Noun

liber m. (plural libers)

1. bast (of a tree)

Anagrams

• libre

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Latin

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Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰo- (“people”). Cognates include: Ancient Greek ἐλεύθερος (eleutheros), Sanskrit रोधति (rodhati), Avestan 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 людиє (ljudie), Russian люди (ljudi, “people”), Polish lud, Oscan Lúvfreís, Welsh llysiau, Alb. lind.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /ˈliː.ber/

• Audio (Classical)

  (file)

Adjective

līber m. (feminine lībera, neuter līberum); first/second declension

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

Number	Singular				Plural
Case \ Gender	M.	F.	N.		MM.	FF.	NN.
nominative	līber	lībera	līberum		līberī	līberae	lībera
genitive	līberī	līberae	līberī		līberōrum	līberārum	līberōrum
dative	līberō	līberae	līberō		līberīs	līberīs	līberīs
accusative	līberum	līberam	līberum		līberōs	līberās	lībera
ablative	līberō	līberā	līberō		līberīs	līberīs	līberīs
vocative	līber	lībera	līberum		līberī	līberae	lībera

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 Romanian: liber Sicilian: lìbbiru Spanish: libre Welsh: llyfr

Etymology 2

Probably from an older form *luber and cognate to Old Church Slavonic лѹбъ (lubŭ, “bark of a tree”) and Lithuanian lùpti (“to peel, to shell”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /ˈli.ber/

• Audio (Classical)

  (file)

Noun

liber (genitive librī); m, second declension

1. a book
2. vocative singular of liber

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	liber	librī
genitive	librī	librōrum
dative	librō	librīs
accusative	librum	librōs
ablative	librō	librīs
vocative	liber 1	librī

¹ May also be libre.

Alternative forms

• lib., l.

Derived terms

• libellus

Related terms

• librāriolus
• librārius

Descendants

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

Occitan: libre Portuguese: livro Sicilian: 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 passive subjunctive of lībō

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Romanian

Adjective

liber

1. free, at liberty

Synonyms

• slobod