liber – Latin noun declension

Noun: liber
Hyphenation:

Gender: Masculine Declension: Second

Nominative

Singular	liber
Plural	librī

Genitive

Singular	librī
Plural	librōrum

Dative

Singular	librō
Plural	librīs

Accusative

Singular	librum
Plural	librōs

Ablative

Singular	librō
Plural	librīs

Vocative

Singular	liber
Plural	librī

Sample Sentences

Parvē — nec invideō — sine mē, liber, ībis in urbem,
eī mihi, quod dominō nōn licet īre tuō!
Little book – I don’t begrudge [you] – without me you will go to the city: Going from me, because it is not allowed for your master to go! ((The exiled poet addresses his book as if it is a servant he will send to Rome.)) [8 CE – 12 CE, Ovidius, Tristia 1.1–2]
Distringit librōrum multitūdō; itaque cum legere nōn possīs quantum habuerīs, satis est habēre quantum lēgās. ([A reader is only] distracted by a multitude of books; so, since you are unable to read as many as you have, it is enough to possess as many as you can read.) [c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca Minor, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 1.2.3]

Nouns inflected like liber

rāster, pīnaster, oleaster, deaster, surdaster, scomber, catulaster, fīliaster, colober, coluber, calamister, cilōter, minister, sēmicaper, poētaster, aeger, faber, fiber, liber, beber, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-rós
4. Proto-Indo-European *lubʰrós
5. Proto-Italic *luβros
6. Latin liber
7. Inherited from Proto-Italic *luβros, from Proto-Indo-European *lubʰ-ró-s, from *lewbʰ- (“to peel, cut off, harm”), perhaps from *lew- (“to cut off”). Cognate with Old Church Slavonic лꙋбъ (lubŭ, “bark of a tree”), Russian луб (lub, “the inner bark of a tree”), Lithuanian lùpti (“to peel, to shell”). See also English leaf, lobby, lodge, Ancient Greek λυπή (lupḗ, “pain”). See: Russian Nouns 'луб', English Nouns 'leaf'.

Verbs referencing "liber"

Galician Nouns libro, Italian Nouns libro, Old Portuguese Nouns livro, Portuguese Nouns livro, English Nouns leaf, English Nouns liber, French Nouns liber, Irish Nouns leabhar, English Nouns libretto, English Nouns libricide, Catalan Nouns llibre, Portuguese Nouns livreto, Asturian Nouns llibru, Italian Nouns libercolo, Russian Nouns луб, English Nouns libriform, English Nouns delibration, Latvian Nouns ļaudis, English Nouns liberform.