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libre

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
9
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈliːbɹə/
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/ˈliːbɹə/ · /ˈlibɹə/ · /ˈliːbɹeɪ/ · /ˈlibɹeɪ/

Definition of libre

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable, obsolete, rare)Especially of the will: free, independent, unconstrained.
    “He [God] Adame lent a libre will to follow what he liſt, / And with his holy ſpirit, and grace his choſen dois aſſiſt: [...]”
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adj

  1. (not-comparable, obsolete, rare)Especially of the will: free, independent, unconstrained.
    “He [God] Adame lent a libre will to follow what he liſt, / And with his holy ſpirit, and grace his choſen dois aſſiſt: [...]”
  2. (not-comparable)With very few limitations on distribution or the right to access the source code to create improved versions, but not necessarily free of charge.
    “One more point leads toward Free Software in education: when students get jobs, they prefer to use tools they learned at school in order to minimize extra learning efforts. This fact should lead colleges to teach only those tools not owned by anyone—those that are libre.”
  3. (historical, not-comparable)Not enslaved (of a black person in a French- or Spanish-colonized area, especially New Orleans).
    “For quotations using this term, see Citations:libre.”

noun

  1. (historical)A free (not enslaved) black person in a French- or Spanish-colonized area, especially New Orleans.
    “For quotations using this term, see Citations:libre.”

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Etymology

The obsolete “unconstrained” sense is borrowed from French libre (“at liberty”; “free” as in “clear”, “vacant”, “without obligation”), from Latin līber (“free, unrestricted”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ- (“people”), whence obsolete…

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The obsolete “unconstrained” sense is borrowed from French libre (“at liberty”; “free” as in “clear”, “vacant”, “without obligation”), from Latin līber (“free, unrestricted”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ- (“people”), whence obsolete English lede (“person(s)”), English leud, and German Leute. The software and the unenslaved senses are either borrowed from the above French, or from its Spanish cognate libre, of the same meaning and Latin etymon.

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