libertus

From Proto-Italic *louðertos, *louðertā (whence also Faliscan 𐌋𐌏𐌅𐌄𐌓𐌕𐌀 (loferta)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ-er-tos, *h₁lewdʰ-er-teh₂, from *h₁lewdʰeros (see līber), from *h₁lewdʰ- (“to grow; people”). Equivalent to līber (“free”) +‎ -tus (adjective-forming suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [liːˈbɛr.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [liˈbɛr.t̪us]

lībertus m (genitive lībertī, feminine līberta); second declension

1. a freedman, an emancipated person
   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 37–40:

     SĪMŌ: [...] Fēcī ex servō ut essēs lībertus mihi, / proptereā quod servībās līberāliter: / quod habuī summum pretium persolvī tibi.

     SIMO: I made you, who were a slave, into a freedman for me, because you served me like a free man: what I had [in my power] — the greatest reward — I gave to you.

Second-declension noun.

• lībertīnus

• → Catalan: llibert (learned)
• → Italian: liberto (learned)

• “libertus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “libertus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “libertus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “libertus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “libertus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin