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• liber
  liber

  noun

  phloem.
• Liber
  Liber

  noun

  an ancient Italian god of wine and vineyards, in later times identified with Bacchus.

liber

¹ American  

[lahy-ber] / ˈlaɪ bər /

noun

Botany.

1. phloem.

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liber ² American  

[lahy-ber, li-ber] / ˈlaɪ bər, ˈlɪ bɛr /

noun

libri, plural libers plural

1. a book of public records, as deeds or birth certificates.

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Liber ³ American  

[lahy-ber] / ˈlaɪ bər /

noun

1. an ancient Italian god of wine and vineyards, in later times identified with Bacchus.

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liber British  

/ ˈlaɪbə /

noun

1. a rare name for phloem

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Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

• libers
  plural
• libri
  plural

Etymology

Origin of liber¹

1745–55; < Latin: bark; akin to leaf

Origin of liber²

< Latin: book, originally bark; see liber ¹

Example Sentences

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

In little groups they knelt, praying, with priests before them intoning the Litany, Ab ira Vesnvii, liber a nos, Domine.

From Time Magazine Archive

If one would know more about Pepys than can be gleaned from the colyums of the Manhattan daily that records the doings of his modern prototype, ecce liber.

From Time Magazine Archive

Continet hic liber quatuor Evangelistarum juxta Hieronymum concordantiam, ubi quot paginae fere sunt, tot figurae diversae variisque coloribus distinctissimae.

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, April 1865 by Various