Jump to:

• 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.

---

liber ² American  

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

noun

plural

libri, libers

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

---

Liber ³ American  

[lahy-ber] / ˈlaɪ bər /

noun

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

---

liber British  

/ ˈlaɪbə /

noun

1. a rare name for phloem

---

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

After the Fatherland became a Republic, its Socialist first President, Friedrich Ebert. decreed as the national anthem: Deutschland, Deutschland liber Alles, liber Alles in der Welt!

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

The writings of Gildas have come down to us under the title of Gildae Sapientis de excidio Britanniae liber querulus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various