Lemma 1lĭbĕr
nounmasculine
book, volume; inner bark of a tree · free, unimpeded; void of; outspoken, frank; licentiousMorphology
genitive singularlibr + i · regular
nominative plurallibr + i · regular
vocative plurallibr + i · regular
Lewis & Short
līber, ĕra, ĕrum, [ root, to desire; lub-dhas, desirous; libet, libido]that acts according to his own will and pleasure, is his own master; free, unrestricted, unrestrained, unimpeded, unshackled; independent, frank, open, bold ( servus, servilis).
; constr. , with ab, the , and also with
judicium audientium relinquere integrum ac liberum; custodia, free custody ( confinement to a house or to a town): aedes, a free house, free dwelling (assigned to the use of ambassadors of friendly nations during their stay in Rome): toga ( for virilis toga), a man's ( of one who is his own master). — —
Free or exempt from, void of; with ab; , B.
With
With (). — — Liberum est, with subject-clause. — in
Free, in a social point of view, not a slave servus; ingenuus, free-born; : ex ancilla et libero jure gentium servus nascitur.
Free, in a political point of view.
In a bad sense, with reference to sensual pleasure, unbridled, unchecked, unrestrained, licentious — Hence, : lībĕrē, freely, unrestrictedly, without let or hinderance; frankly, openly, boldly. —
liberūm, Att. ; , a child.
( and rare)
, children ; but in only of children with reference to their parents: pueri = children in general, as younger than adulescentes.
: liberorum genus, Enn. (Trag. 347 Vahl.): liberorum sibi quaesendum gratia, Müll. (Trag. 161 Vahl.); 6, 5 al.: mater quae liberos, quasi oculos (amisit), orba est, Sulp. Paul. ex Müll.: jus trium liberorum, under the emperors, a privilege enjoyed by those who had three legitimate children (it consisted in the permission to fill a public office before one's twenty-fifth year, and in freedom from personal burdens); this privilege was sometimes also bestowed on those who had fewer than three children, or even none at all; also of one child; Zumpt; also Sulp. — Of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Of sons ( daughters).
Of children = pueri; Catus aut de liberis educandis, the title of a book by Varro.
, of animals, young. — Comically.
, an old Italian deity, who presided over planting and fructification; afterwards identified with the Greek Bacchus; in a pun with liber, free — Connected with pater.
, wine; also supra.
the inner bark or rind of a tree.
, because the ancients used the bark or rind of trees to write upon; usually the thin rind of the Egyptian papyrus, on which the books of the Greeks and Romans were usually written ( Dict. of Antiq. p. 587 ). — Hence.
Paper, parchment, or rolls of any substance used to write upon
Most a book, work, treatise.
A division of a work a look: sicut superiore libro continetur — Sometimes, in this latter case, liber is omitted.
In relig. or pub. law lang., a religious book, scriptures; a statute - book, code.
A list, catalogue, register.
A letter, epistle.
A rescript, decree ().