liberi

See also: Liberi

Italian

Adjective

liberi m

1. masculine plural of libero

Verb

liberi

1. inflection of liberare:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. third-person singular imperative

Noun

liberi m

1. plural of libero

Latin

Etymology

From līber (“free”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈliː.be.riː/, [ˈlʲiːbɛriː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.be.ri/, [ˈliːberi]

Adjective

līberī

1. inflection of līber:
   1. genitive masculine/neuter singular
   2. nominative/vocative masculine plural

Noun

līberī m pl (genitive līberōrum); second declension, (plurale tantum)

1. children
2. offspring

Declension

Second-declension noun, plural only.

Case	Plural
Nominative	līberī
Genitive	līberōrum
Dative	līberīs
Accusative	līberōs
Ablative	līberīs
Vocative	līberī

Related terms

• līber
• līberta
• lībertus
• lībertās
• lībertīnus
• līberālis
• līberāliter
• līberālitās
• līberātiō
• līberātor
• līberē
• līberō

 

References

• “liberi”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “liberi”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• liberi in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to accept as one's own child; to make oneself responsible for its nurture and education: tollere or suscipere liberos
    
  • (ambiguous) to treat as one's own child: aliquem in liberorum loco habere
    
  • (ambiguous) the teaching of children: disciplina (institutio) puerilis (not liberorum)
    
  • (ambiguous) to enslave a free people: liberum populum servitute afficere
    
  • (ambiguous) to grant a people its independence: populum liberum esse, libertate uti, sui iuris esse pati
    
  • (ambiguous) with wife and child: cum uxoribus et liberis