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(ambiguous) the work when translated; translation (concrete): liber (scriptoris) conversus, translatus
(ambiguous) the book is entitled 'Laelius': liber inscribiturLaelius (Off. 2. 9. 30)
(ambiguous) there exists a book on..: est liber de...
(ambiguous) the book is still extant: exstat liber (notice the order of the words)
(ambiguous) the book has been lost: liber intercidit, periit
(ambiguous) a book which has been entirely lost sight of: liber deperditus
(ambiguous) a lost book of which fragments (relliquiae, not fragmenta) remain: liber perditus
(ambiguous) a book which is attributed to some one: liber qui fertur alicuius
(ambiguous) the book is attributed to an unknown writer: liber refertur ad nescio quem auctorem
(ambiguous) the book treats of friendship: hic liber est de amicitia (not agit) or hoc libro agitur de am.
(ambiguous) to be engaged on a book: liber mihi est in manibus
(ambiguous) the book, speech can easily be obtained: liber, oratio in manibus est
(ambiguous) a carefully written book: liber accurate, diligenter scriptus
(ambiguous) a very charming book: liber plenus delectationis
(ambiguous) the Republic: libera res publica, liber populus
(ambiguous) an independent spirit: a partibus rei publicae animus liber (Sall. Cat. 4. 2)
(ambiguous) with wife and child: cum uxoribus et liberis
“libo”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN