Where does “liberate” come from?
liberate (Latin) comes from Latin liberatus, from Latin libero, from Latin libera, from Latin liber, from Old Latin loeber, from French lober, from French lob, from English lob — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
liberate (Latin): second-person plural present active imperative of...
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- second-person plural present active imperative of...
Ancestry of “liberate”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | liberatus | freed, liberated, having been freed; released,... |
| 2 | Latin | libero | I free, set free, liberate; I release, deliver; I... |
| 3 | Latin | libera | inflection of līber: ## nominative/vocative... |
| 4 | Latin | liber | free, independent, unrestricted, unchecked; open;... |
| 5 | Old Latin | loeber | — |
| 6 | French | lober | to lob |
| 7 | French | lob | lob |
| 8 | English | lob | To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high... |
| 9 | English | long | Having much distance from one terminating point... |
| 10 | English | longitude | Angular distance measured west or east of the... |
| 11 | Old French | longitude | — |
| 12 | Latin | longitūdō | length, longitude; longness |
| 13 | Latin | longus | far, long; extended, prolonged; long; tedious,... |
| 14 | Latin | -ē | ly; used to form adverbs from adjectives |
| 15 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 16 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 17 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 18 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |