Liber

See also: liber, libër, li ber, and Liber.

English

Proper noun

Liber

1. (Roman mythology) A god of viticulture and wine, as well as male fertility and freedom.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ- (“to grow”). Cognates include: Ancient Greek ἐλεύθερος (eleútheros), Sanskrit रोधति (rodhati), German Leute, Russian люди (ljudi, “people”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈliː.ber/, [ˈlʲiːbɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.ber/, [ˈliːber]

Proper noun

Līber m sg (genitive Līberī); second declension

1. (Roman myth) An Italic deity of planting and fruiting; associated with the Roman Bacchus.

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er), singular only.

	singular
nominative	Līber
genitive	Līberī
dative	Līberō
accusative	Līberum
ablative	Līberō
vocative	Līber

References

• “Līber”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Liber”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Liber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.