lib
English
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈlɪb/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪb
Etymology 1
editAbbreviation for various words beginning in lib-.
Noun
editlib (countable and uncountable, plural libs)
- (politics) liberal
- own the libs
- liberation
- women's lib
- library
- libertarian
Further reading
editEtymology 2
editFrom Middle English libbe, from Old English lybb, lyb (“medicine, drug, potion, poison, charm”), from Proto-West Germanic *lubi, from Proto-Germanic *lubją (“wort, herb, drug, poison”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-, *lewb- (“to peel, break, damage”), from Proto-Indo-European *lew- (“to cut, remove, prune, separate”). Cognate with German Luppe, Lüppe (“salve, ointment, plant juice, medicine, magic”), Icelandic lyf (“medicine, drug”).
Noun
editlib (plural libs)
Etymology 3
editFrom Middle English *libben (suggested by libbyng (“gelding”), lybbere (“gelder”)), related to Dutch lubben (“to castrate, emasculate”), Dutch libbe (“a steer”), lubbert (“a eunuch”). Further relation uncertain. Possibly related to Old English *lybban (“to doctor”), from Proto-West Germanic *lubbjan; or perhaps related to Old English lappa, læppa (“lappet, piece, section, lobe, portion, district”). More at lop.
Verb
editlib (third-person singular simple present libs, present participle libbing, simple past and past participle libbed)
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To geld; castrate; emasculate (usually said of animals).
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editlib
Haitian Creole
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editlib
- free
- unoccupied
- loose (in morals)
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editReferences
edit- Targète, Jean and Urciolo, Raphael G. Haitian Creole-English dictionary (1993; →ISBN)
Irish
editPronoun
editlib
Old High German
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *līb.
Noun
editlīb m or n
- life
- livelihood
- body
- monastic life
Declension
editMasculine declension:
case | singular | plural |
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nominative | līb | lība |
accusative | līb | lība |
genitive | lībes | lībo |
dative | lībe | lībum |
instrumental | lību | — |
Neuter declension:
case | singular | plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | līb | līb |
accusative | līb | līb |
genitive | lībes | lībo |
dative | lībe | lībum |
instrumental | lību | — |
Derived terms
editDescendants
editOld Irish
editPronunciation
editPronoun
editlib
- second-person plural of la
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 14a8
- Níba cuit adíll ⁊ cucuibsi, acht ainfa lib, ar nídad foirbthi-si; it foirbthi immurgu Macidonii.
- It will not be merely a passing visit to you pl, but I will remain with you, for you are not perfect; the Macedonians, however, are perfect.
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 14a8
Volapük
editNoun
editlib (nominative plural libs)
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