libertus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *louðertos, *louðertā (whence also Faliscan loifirta), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ-er-tos, *h₁lewdʰ-er-teh₂, from *h₁lewdʰeros (see līber), from *h₁lewdʰ- (“to grow; people”). Equivalent to līber (“free”) +‎ -tus (adjective-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /liːˈber.tus/, [lʲiːˈbɛrt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /liˈber.tus/, [liˈbɛrt̪us]

Noun

lībertus m (genitive lībertī, feminine līberta); second declension

1. A freedman, an emancipated person.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lībertus	lībertī
Genitive	lībertī	lībertōrum
Dative	lībertō	lībertīs
Accusative	lībertum	lībertōs
Ablative	lībertō	lībertīs
Vocative	līberte	lībertī

Synonyms

• lībertīnus

Related terms

• līber
• līberta
• lībertās
• līberālis
• līberāliter
• līberālitās
• līberātiō
• līberātor
• līberātrīx
• līberē
• līberī
• līberō

 

References

• “libertus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “libertus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• libertus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “libertus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “libertus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin