Liber

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

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Classical)

  (file)

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 & 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 (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.