libertus

From Proto-Italic *louðertos, *louðertā (whence also Faliscan loifirta), 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) IPA^(key): /liːˈber.tus/, [lʲiːˈbɛrt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /liˈber.tus/, [liˈbɛrt̪us]

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

1. A freedman, an emancipated person.

Second-declension noun.

• lībertīnus

• “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