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 Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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