Liber

See also: liber, libër, li ber, and Liber.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ- (“to grow”). Cognates include: Ancient Greek ἐλεύθερος (eleútheros), Sanskrit रोधति (rodhati), German Leute, Russian люди (ljudi, “people”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈliː.ber/, [ˈliː.bɛr]

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Proper noun

Līber m (genitive Līberī); second declension

1. (Roman myth) An Italian deity of planting and fruiting; associated with the Roman Bacchus.

Inflection

Second declension, nominative singular in -er.

Case	Singular
nominative	Līber
genitive	Līberī
dative	Līberō
accusative	Līberum
ablative	Līberō
vocative	Līber1

¹May also be Lībere.

References

• Līber in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Liber in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Liber” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)