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See also: Lib, LIB, līb, lib., and Lib.

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɪb/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪb

Etymology 1

Abbreviation for various words beginning in lib-.

Noun

lib (countable and uncountable, plural libs)

  1. (politics) liberal
    own the libs
  2. liberation
    women's lib
  3. library
  4. libertarian
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Etymology 2

From Middle English libbe, from Old English lybb, lyb (“medicine, drug, potion, poison, charm”), from Proto-West Germanic *lubi, from Proto-Germanic *lubją (“wort, herb, drug, poison”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-, *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”).

Noun

lib (plural libs)

  1. (UK dialectal, Scotland) A potion; magic potion; charm; concoction.

Etymology 3

From Middle English *libben (suggested by libbyng (“gelding”), lybbere (“gelder”)), related to Dutch lubben (“to castrate, emasculate”), Dutch libbe (“a steer”), lubbert (“a eunuch”). Further relation uncertain. Possibly related to Old English *lybban (“to doctor”), from Proto-West Germanic *lubbjan; or perhaps related to Old English lappa, læppa (“lappet, piece, section, lobe, portion, district”). More at lop.

Verb

lib (third-person singular simple present libs, present participle libbing, simple past and past participle libbed)

  1. (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To geld; castrate; emasculate (usually said of animals).
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Czech

Pronunciation

Verb

lib

  1. second-person singular imperative of líbit

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French libre (“free”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

lib

  1. free
  2. unoccupied
  3. loose (in morals)

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References

  • Targète, Jean and Urciolo, Raphael G. Haitian Creole-English dictionary (1993; →ISBN)

Irish

Pronoun

lib

  1. Galway form of libh

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *līb.

Noun

līb m or n

  1. life
  2. livelihood
  3. body
  4. monastic life

Declension

Masculine declension:

Declension of līb (masculine a-stem)
case singular plural
nominative līb lība
accusative līb lība
genitive lībes lībo
dative lībe lībum
instrumental lību —

Neuter declension:

Declension of līb (neuter a-stem)
case singular plural
nominative līb līb
accusative līb līb
genitive lībes lībo
dative lībe lībum
instrumental lību —

Derived terms

Descendants

Old Irish

Pronunciation

Pronoun

lib

  1. second-person plural of la
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 14a8
      Níba cuit adíll ⁊ cucuibsi, acht ainfa lib, ar nídad foirbthi-si; it foirbthi immurgu Macidonii.
      It will not be merely a passing visit to you pl, but I will remain with you, for you are not perfect; the Macedonians, however, are perfect.

Volapük

Noun

lib (nominative plural libs)

  1. freedom

Declension

declension of lib
singular plural
nominative lib libs
genitive liba libas
dative libe libes
accusative libi libis
vocative 1 o lib! o libs!
predicative 2 libu libus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only
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