liberaliter Latin · revision 9240

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''līberāliter''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[līberālis]] “of a free man, generous” with the adverb suffix [[-ter]], from [[līber]] “free”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Plautus, “generously”.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant like a free man, as in Terence; generously, nobly, obligingly, as in Plautus; and on a generous scale, abundantly, as in Cicero.^(OLD 2012) Caesar has ''līberāliter respondēre'' “to reply courteously”.^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ British Medieval Latin used it for freely, without conditions, of grants of land.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it of free men.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of abundance.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # Like a free man; courteously.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # [[m|en|generously|alt=Generously]], nobly.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Abundantly, amply.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Freely, without conditions.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[līber]]

+ * [[līberālis]]

+ * [[līberālitās]]

+ * [[līberātiō]]

+ * [[līberātor]]

+ * [[līberē]]

+ * [[līberī]]

+ * [[līberō]]

+ * [[libērta]]

+ * [[lībērtās]]

+ * [[en|liberal]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}