liberator Latin · revision 8352

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la līber}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [liː.bɛˈraː.tɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [li.beˈraː.tor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''līberātor''' ''m'' (genitive līberātōris, feminine līberātrīx); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[līberō]] “to set free” with the suffix [[-tor]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Plautus, whom he dates c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant a person who sets free, a deliverer.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant a liberator, protector, deliverer.^(Stelten 1995) British Medieval Latin used it for a deliverer, as John of Salisbury's deliverer of his country, and of Christ.^(DMLBS) It survives in Spanish ''librador'' and French ''livreur'', and was borrowed again as French ''libérateur'' and Italian ''liberatore'', and [[en|liberator]] is recorded from the 1640s.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1640s – English ''liberator'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A deliverer, [[m|en|liberator]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' A protector, and Christ the deliverer.^(Stelten 1995)^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[līber]]

+ * [[līberālis]]

+ * [[līberālitās]]

+ * [[līberāliter]]

+ * [[līberātiō]]

+ * [[līberē]]

+ * [[līberī]]

+ * [[libērta]]

+ * [[lībērtās]]

+ * [[lībērtīnus]]

+ * [[līberō]]

+ * [[en|liberator]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}