EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
liber (countable and uncountable, plural libers)
- (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.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
liber m (plural libers)
- bast (of a tree)
AnagramsEdit
External linksEdit
- “liber” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
LatinEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ- (“people”). Cognates include: Ancient Greek ἐλεύθερος (eleútheros), Sanskrit रोधति (rodhati), German Leute, Russian люди (ljudi, “people”).
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
līber m (feminine lībera, neuter līberum); first/second declension
InflectionEdit
First/second declension, masculine nominative singular in -er.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | līber | lībera | līberum | līberī | līberae | lībera | |
| genitive | līberī | līberae | līberī | līberōrum | līberārum | līberōrum | |
| dative | līberō | līberae | līberō | līberīs | līberīs | līberīs | |
| accusative | līberum | līberam | līberum | līberōs | līberās | lībera | |
| ablative | līberō | līberā | līberō | līberīs | līberīs | līberīs | |
| vocative | līber | lībera | līberum | līberī | līberae | lībera | |
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Etymology 2Edit
Probably from an older form *luber, from Proto-Indo-European *leup- (“to peel, break off”). Cognate to Old Church Slavonic лѹбъ (lubŭ, “bark of a tree”) and Lithuanian lùpti (“to peel, to shell”).[1] See also English leaf, lodge, Ancient Greek λέπω (lépō, “to peel”), λέπος (lépos, “peel”), λεπτός (leptós, “peel”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
liber m (genitive librī); second declension
- a book
InflectionEdit
Second declension, nominative singular in -er.
| Number | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | liber | librī |
| genitive | librī | librōrum |
| dative | librō | librīs |
| accusative | librum | librōs |
| ablative | librō | librīs |
| vocative | liber libre |
librī |
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Etymology 3Edit
Inflected form of the verb lībo (“taste, spill”).
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
līber
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of lībō
ReferencesEdit
- ^ “libro” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, ISBN 978-88-00-20781-2
- līber, adj. in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879
- līber, n. in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879