līber, lībera, līberum

Definitions for līber

Wheelock's Latin

Adjective

1
free
English derivatives:
liberal liberality libertine

Oxford Latin Dictionary

Adjective

1
Possessing the social and legal status of a free man, free (as opp. to slave). (b) (of the body or its parts, esp. periphr. for the person). (c) characteristic of or belonging to a free man.
2
Not subject to autocratic rule, politically free.
3
(of states, peoples) Free from foreign rule, independent. (b) a state granted local autonomy granted by Rome.
4
(w. ab, abl., or gen.) Released or free (from), unhindered (by).
5
(of things) Free from physical restraint or compulsion, loose, unconnected, free. (b) ~era custodia, confinement in a private house, house arrest.

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Sentences with līber

Latin to English

Pulchra patria nostra est lībera.Compare Our beautiful country is free.

Tē, Ō patria lībera, semper amābāmus et sempter amābimus.Compare Free fatherland, we always used to love you and we always shall love (you).

Libera fortunae mors est; capit omnia tellus, quae genuit; caelo tegitur, qui non habet urnam.Compare Death is free from fortune's sway; the earth takes back all she gave birth to; the sky covers the man who had no burial urn.

Quisnam igitur liber? Sapiens, sibi qui imperiosus, quem neque pauperies neque mors neque vincula terrent, responsare cupidinibus, contemnere honores fortis, et in se ipso totus, teres atque rotundusCompare Who then is free? The wise man alone, who is a stern master to himself, whom neither poverty nor death nor bonds affright, who has the courage to say "no" again and again to desires, to despise the object of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

Nunc liber tu inviolatusque hinc dimitto.Compare Now I dismiss you hence free and unhurt.

Data sources

Notes

Definitions
Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 34.
P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1023.
Word frequencies
Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 123.

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Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.

Francese, Christopher. "Latin Core Vocabulary." Dickinson College Commentaries. Last modified 2014. http://dcc.dickinson.edu/latin-vocabulary-list.

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Citation

Chicago (17th ed.)

Allo Contributors. "līber, lībera, līberum (adj.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified September 3, 2023. Accessed December 26, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/liber-libera-liberum.