The corpus record — Latin

liber1

free

Figures and citations on this page are drawn from the audited Latin corpus; none are written from memory.

Distribution

Avidius Cassius 15 · 57.52/10k
Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 3 · 54.74/10k
De Bissula 2 · 54.5/10k
Noctes Atticae 559 · 49.97/10k
Cato 2 · 46.73/10k
Praefatio 1 · 42.74/10k
Phocion 2 · 37.52/10k
Lysander 2 · 37.04/10k
Eclogarum Liber 10 · 36.52/10k
Praefatiunculae 2 · 36.5/10k
Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 9 · 34.25/10k
Antoninus Geta 4 · 32.52/10k

Densest 12 of 288 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

Senses

1. liber — de Vaan

free

2. līber — Lewis & Short

that acts according to his own will and pleasure, is his own master; free, unrestricted, unrestrained, unimpeded…

3. līber — Lewis & Short

a child

4. Līber — Lewis & Short

an old Italian deity, who presided over planting and fructification

5. lĭber — Lewis & Short

the inner bark

Attestations

liberosque Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.4.5
liberis Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.6.5
liberis Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.6.11
liberis Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.6.22
liberos Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.11.3
Liberius Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.7.6

6 of 5,212 attestations shown.

Deep etymology

Authority pointers, pending review

These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) scan p. 352; entry #905 Review: Under source audit
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine scan p. 379; entry #5990 Review: Under source audit

The authorities' own wording is withheld pending review. Each source's identity, locator, and review status are cited above.

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Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.