Informal liberation (sense )
lib
lib- librarian
- library
Lib
- Liberal
- Liberia
- Libya
lib.
Origin of lib.
Classical Latin liber bookWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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lib
noun
InformalA movement that seeks to achieve equal rights for a group; liberation.
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Abbreviations
- liberal
- liberation
- women's lib
- library
Origin
Abbreviation for various words beginning in lib-.
Origin
From Middle English libbe, from Old English lybb (“medicine, drug, potion, poison, charm"), from Proto-Germanic *lubjÄ… (“wort, herb, drug, poison"), from Proto-Indo-European *lewbÊ°-, *lewb- (“to peel, break, damage"), from Proto-Indo-European *lew- (“to cut, remove, prune, separate"). Cognate with German Luppe, Lüppe (“salve, ointment, plant juice, medicine, magic"), Icelandic lyf (“medicine, drug").
Verb
(third-person singular simple present libs, present participle libbing, simple past and past participle libbed)
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To geld; castrate; emasculate (usually said of animals).
Anagrams
Origin
From Middle English libben, related to Dutch lubben (“to castrate, emasculate"), Dutch libbe (“a steer"), lubbert (“a eunuch"). Further relation uncertain. Possibly related to Old English *lybbian (“to doctor"), from lybb (see above); or perhaps related to Old English lappa, læppa (“lappet, piece, section, lobe, portion, district"). More at lop.
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