Liber

Liber

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

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈliː.bɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈliː.ber]

Līber m sg (genitive Līberī); second declension

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

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

• “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.