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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *leiβom, *loiβom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leybʰ-om, *h₂loybʰ-om, from *h₂leybʰ- (“(anointing) grease”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ἀλείφω (aleíphō, “to anoint”), Ancient Greek ἄλειφᾰρ (áleiphar, “unguent”).
Pronunciation
Noun
lībum n (genitive lībī); second declension
- a cake or pancake, made of meal and milk or oil and spread with honey, such as was offered to the gods, especially on a birthday
- lībum nātāle ― birthday cake
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 3.733-734:
- Nōmine ab auctōris dūcunt lībāmina nōmen
lībaque, quod sānctīs pars datur inde focīs.- Libations and cakes draw their names from the name of their inventor,
because a portion of them is being offered upon the sacred hearths.
(Ovid credits the god Liber, or Bacchus, with the origin of ancient sacred ritual practices, such as offering a lībāmen (“libation”) and a lībum (“cake”). For another likely link to Liber’s name – and the Latin lībō – see also the Greek λείβω (leíbō, “to pour”).)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Derived terms
References
- “libum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “libum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- libum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- libum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “libum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “libum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 339