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
-
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
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
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
Liver, book; liber, originally the bark of trees on which books were written.
From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
The following year, Les invited Liber to march in Selma, Ala. The trips affected him deeply, his brother said.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2022
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
“Increasing land supply while prices are high, and vice versa won’t work because property developers will hold onto their existing stocks to maximize profits, and this drives up prices,” added Liber.
From Forbes ● Apr. 3, 2015
Fibonacci is best remembered for a silly little problem he posed in his book, Liber Abaci, which was published in 1202.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
He claimed that he used original authorities, e.g. the libri lintei, lists of magistrates written on linen.
From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by Middleton, George
The learned Marcus Terentius Varro of Reate, when eighty years of age, composed his Rerum rusticarum, libri tres, dealing with agriculture, the rearing of cattle, and the breeding of fishes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" by Various
White published in 1651 Institutionum Peripateticorum libri quinque, purporting to expound Digby’s “peripatetic philosophy,” but going far beyond Digby’s published treatises.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various
The man whose culture is limited, or, rather, entirely estranged from the understanding of life, is called homo unius libri.
From The Reform of Education by Gentile, Giovanni
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 Disraeli, Isaac
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