lib

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪb/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪb

Abbreviation for various words beginning in lib-.

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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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”).

lib (plural libs)

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

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.

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).

• glib
• libbert
• libbet

• BLI, bil

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -ɪp

lib

1. second-person singular imperative of líbit

From French libre (“free”).

• IPA^(key): /lib/

lib

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

• libète

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

lib

1. Galway form of libh

From Proto-West Germanic *līb.

līb m or n

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

Masculine declension:

Neuter declension:

• guotwerklib

• Middle High German: līp, līph, līf, līb
  • Alemannic German: Liib
  • Central Franconian: Liev, Leiv

    Hunsrik: Leib

    Luxembourgish: Läif, Leif

  • Cimbrian: laip
  • German: Leib
  • Vilamovian: łaowa
  • Yiddish: לײַב (layb)

• IPA^(key):

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. 13^b12

  Masu glé lib trá in precept ro·pridchus-sa .i. as·réracht Críst hó marbaib, cid dia léicid cundubairt for drécht úaib de resurrectione hominum?

  If, then, what I have preached is clear to you, namely that Christ has risen from the dead, why do you pl leave doubt on a portion of you concerning the resurrection of humans?

  (literally, “…the preaching that I have preached…”)

• 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. 14^a8

  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.

• Irish: libh
• Manx: lhiu
• Scottish Gaelic: leibh

lib (nominative plural libs)

1. freedom