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
Noun Inflected Forms
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
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
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
Page 47—proprietory amended to proprietary—"... and liber F., 1636-1642, proprietary records, have been handed down ..."
From Captain Richard Ingle The Maryland "Pirate and Rebel," 1642-1653 by Edward Ingle
Liber said at least 25 villages will be demolished to make way for it.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
“He would go back and make sure every little item, every expression on the face, every single thing was just done, fast,” Liber said.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 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
The heartbreaking song “Far From the Home I Love” is now “Vayt fun Mayn Liber Heym.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2018
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
The Bibliotheca pontificia is introduced with the following heading: In intima et ultima secretiori bibliotheca ubi libri sunt pretiosiores.
From The Care of Books by John Willis Clark
Separate parts may have had special titles: thus Books cix-cxvi. were known as Civilis belli libri viii.
From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by George Middleton
His most original work is the De imitatione, seu de informandi styli ratione libri II.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" by Various
Of his numerous works, that on which his fame principally rests is the treatise entitled De Morbis Venereis libri sex, 1736.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" 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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