libre

From French and Spanish libre (“free, at liberty”).

The pronunciation is near to French one.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈliː.bɹə/
• Homophone: Libra
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈli.bɹə/, /ˈli.bɹeɪ/

libre (not comparable)

1. (free software movement) With very few limitations on distribution or improvement; including source code.
2. (uncommon) free (as in freedom); independent.

• The latter sense is mainly used to distinguish from the gratis meaning of the word free.

• free as in speech
• gratis

• Erbil, Liber., birle, liber

Borrowed from Spanish libre, from Latin līber, from Old Latin loeber, from Proto-Italic *louðeros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ-er-os, from *h₁lewdʰ- (“people”).

libre

1. Without charge; free, gratis.
2. Not married; single.
3. At liberty.
4. Without burden.

libre

1. To treat, to provide someone with (food, drink, or entertainment) at one's own expense.
2. To pay for another person's purchase.

From Old French, borrowed from Latin līber (“free”), from Old Latin loeber, from Proto-Italic *louðeros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ-er-os, from *h₁lewdʰ- (“people”).

• IPA^(key): /libʁ/

• Audio (France, Paris)

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• Homophone: libres
• Hyphenation: libre

libre (plural libres)

1. free, at liberty

   Un homme libre.

   A free man.

2. clear, free, vacant

   La voie est libre.

   The way is clear.

3. free, without obligation

   Temps libre.

   Free time.

• → Alemannic German: liiber
• → English: libre
• → Romanian: liber

• “libre” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• liber

From Old Portuguese libre, livre, from Latin līber.

libre m or f (plural libres)

1. free, not captive, unbound

Borrowed from Spanish libre.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlibɾɛ/

líbre

1. free; without charge; gratis

libre

1. book

• librario
• librarium
• librette, librettist
• librería

libre f

1. plural of libra

From Old French, borrowed from Latin līber (“free”).

libre m or f

1. (Jersey) free

libre c (plural libres)

1. book

From Old Occitan libre, from Latin liber, librum (“book”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈliβɾe]

libre m (plural libres)

1. book

From Latin liber, librum. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French livre.

libre m (oblique plural libres, nominative singular libres, nominative plural libre)

1. book

• Catalan: llibre
• Occitan: libre

• IPA^(key): /ˈlibɾe/, [ˈliβɾe]

From Latin līber, from Old Latin loeber, from Proto-Italic *louðeros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ-er-os, from *h₁lewdʰ- (“people”).

libre (plural libres)

1. free (not imprisoned or enslaved)
2. free (unconstrained by timidity or distrust)
3. free (without obligations)
4. (grammar) free (that can be unattached to another morpheme)
5. free (without; not containing)

   Synonym: sin

• libremente

• liberar
• libérrimo
• libertad

• → English: libre
• → Hiligaynon: libre
• → Tagalog: libre

See the etymology of the main entry.

libre

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of librar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of librar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of librar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of librar.

• “libre” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Spanish libre

• IPA^(key): /ˈlibɾɛ/

líbre

1. free; without charge; gratis

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