liber
noun
liber
1 American
[lahy-ber]
/ ˈlaɪ bər /
noun
Botany.
liber
2
American
[lahy-ber, li-ber ]
/ ˈlaɪ bər, ˈlɪ bɛr /
noun
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libri,
plural
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libers
plural
Liber
3
American
[lahy-ber]
/ ˈlaɪ bər /
noun
liber
British
/ ˈlaɪbə /
noun
Other Word Forms
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Etymology
Origin of liber1
1745–55; < Latin: bark; akin to leaf
Origin of liber2
< Latin: book, originally bark; see liber 1
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A friend described him as a “true believer,” devoted to the mission of Special Forces: De oppresso liber, to free the oppressed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2021
Registered the within manumission at full length, this eleventh day of July, 1766, in liber D.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2015
Automation is also certain to liber ate both manpower and brainpower to tackle tasks hitherto considered impossible and to meet human needs till now deemed impractical.
From Time Magazine Archive
Said he: "We were not wrong to choose liber ty and justice to build a pluralistic society in a united Spain."
From Time Magazine Archive
Two additional MSS., which formerly belonged to Digby, and which each contain his inscription, 'Hic est liber publicæ Bibliothecæ academiæ Oxoniensis, K.D.,' were purchased in 1825.
From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by William Dunn Macray
Liber said at least 25 villages will be demolished to make way for it.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
Alex Liber, an assistant professor in the oncology department of Georgetown University’s School of Medicine who studies tobacco control policy, examined Poland’s experience with a menthol cigarette ban instituted in 2020.
From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2022
State business license information shows Nommensen is the co-owner of Liber Construction in Spanaway, and the business address listed for the company is the same as Nommensen’s last known address included in charging documents.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 1, 2022
To follow along with the melody, our priest suggested the Liber Usualis, a book of religious chant music dating back to the 11th century.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2020
Bacchus, never Dionysus, was the name of the wine-god, who had also a Latin name, Liber.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Half a blessed hour has not elapsed since we entered into the door of this hill-house, and we offer twenty to one that we read Ossian ad aperturam libri, in the original Gaelic.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
Our next work contains the five books of the Tusculan Disputations, addressed to Brutus: Tusculanarum Disputationum, ad M. Brutum, libri i., ii., iii., iv., and v.
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Anthony Trollope
The old Latin proverb reminds us of this fact, Cave ab homine unius libri: Be cautious of the man of one book!
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
A second part, under the title of Pandeclarium sive partitionum universalium Conradi Gesneri Ligurini libri xxi., appeared in 1548; only nineteen books being then concluded.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" by Various
His family understood it better, in consequence, than any other; and so he continued to translate from his English Bible, ad aperturam libri, many years after the Gaelic edition had been spread over the county.
From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by John Davidson
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