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5-letter words (2 found)

BIRLE,LIBER,

4-letter words (10 found)

BIER,BILE,BIRL,BREI,BRIE,LEIR,LIER,LIRE,RIEL,RILE,

3-letter words (8 found)

BEL,IRE,LEI,LIB,LIE,REB,REI,RIB,

2-letter words (6 found)

BE,BI,EL,ER,LI,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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Definitions and meaning of liber

liber

Etymology

From Latin liber (“the inner bark of a tree; book”). See libel.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlaɪbə(ɹ)/

Noun

liber (countable and uncountable, plural libers)

  1. (botany) The inner bark of plants, next to the wood. It usually contains a large proportion of woody, fibrous cells, and is the part from which the fibre of the plant is obtained, as that of hemp, etc.
  2. A book of public records.

Related terms

  • libro-

See also

  • liber amicorum

Anagrams

  • Erbil, birle, libre

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlɪbɛr]

Etymology 1

Noun

liber

  1. genitive plural of libra

Etymology 2

Noun

liber

  1. genitive plural of libero

French

Etymology

From Latin liber (“book; the inner bark of a tree”). Doublet of livre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /li.bɛʁ/

Noun

liber m (plural libers)

  1. bast (of a tree)
  2. book

Related terms

  • librairie
  • libro-
  • livro-

Further reading

  • “liber”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • libre

Latin

Etymology 1

From Old Latin loeber, from Proto-Italic *louðeros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁léwdʰeros, from *h₁lewdʰ- (“people”).

Cognate with Ancient Greek ἐλεύθερος (eleútheros), Sanskrit रोधति (ródhati), Dutch lieden, German Leute, Russian лю́ди (ljúdi, “people”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈliː.ber/, [ˈlʲiːbɛr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈli.ber/, [ˈliːber]

Adjective

līber (feminine lībera, neuter līberum, comparative līberior, superlative līberrimus, adverb līberē); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

  2. free, independent, unrestricted, unchecked, unrestrained, licentious
    Synonyms: solūtus, expers, immūnis
  3. open (not decided or settled)
  4. unbiased (pertains to lawyers)
  5. exempt, void
Declension

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

  • Genitive plural sometimes līberum
Derived terms
Descendants

Noun

līber m (genitive līberī); second declension

  1. (post-classical) a child
    Synonyms: fīlius, nātus
Usage notes

Until the post-classical era, this word was a pluralia tantum (only used in the plural). Even in the post-classical era, the singular was extremely rare in writing and for the most part, only found in the Code of Justinian. In the classical era, it seems it was used in the singular in Quintilian's Declamationes maiores 2.8.

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

Etymology 2

From Proto-Italic *luβros, from Proto-Indo-European *lubʰ-ró-s, from *lewbʰ- (“to peel, cut off, harm”), perhaps from *lew- (“to cut off”). Cognate with Old Church Slavonic лꙋбъ (lubŭ, “bark of a tree”), Lithuanian lùpti (“to peel, to shell”). See also English leaf, lobby, lodge, Ancient Greek λυπή (lupḗ, “pain”).

Alternative forms

  • lib., l.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈli.ber/, [ˈlʲɪbɛr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈli.ber/, [ˈliːber]

Noun

liber m (genitive librī); second declension

  2. book
  4. the inner bark of a tree
Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

Derived terms
  • libellus
  • librārius
  • librārium
Descendants

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈliː.ber/, [ˈlʲiːbɛr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈli.ber/, [ˈliːber]

Verb

līber

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of lībō

References

  • “līber, adj.”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “līber, n.”, 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 Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • “liber”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “liber”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
  • “liber”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • “liber”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Lombard

Etymology 1

Akin to Italian libero, from Latin līber.

Adjective

liber

  1. free

Etymology 2

Akin to Italian libro, from Latin liber.

Noun

liber

  1. book

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin liber, French libre (19th century). Aromanian libir appears to be inherited.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈli.ber/

Adjective

liber m or n (feminine singular liberă, masculine plural liberi, feminine and neuter plural libere)

  1. free, at liberty
    Synonym: slobod

Declension

Related terms

  • elibera
  • libera

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