liberate

== English == === Etymology 1 === Learned borrowing from Latin līberātus (“freed, liberated; absolved, acquitted; released”); see English -ate (suffix forming verbs, and used as the ending of participial adjectives and obsolete past participles from Latin). Līberātus is the perfect passive participle of līberō (“to free, liberate; to absolve, acquit; to release”), from līber (“free, unrestricted”), + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs); and līberō is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁léwdʰeros (“free”), from *h₁lewdʰ- (“to grow; people”) + *-teros (contrastive or oppositional adjectival suffix) (*h₁léwdʰeros possibly originally meant ‘belonging to one’s own people’, excluding slaves who were captured from other groups of people, and thus later came to mean “free (not enslaved)”). Not related to deliberate. ==== Pronunciation ==== Verb: (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈlɪbəɹeɪt/ (Standard Southern British) IPA(key): /ˈlɪbəɹɛjt/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈlɪbəˌɹeɪt/ Adjective and participle: (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈlɪbəɹet/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈlɪbəˌɹet/ Hyphenation: lib‧er‧ate ==== Verb ==== liberate (third-person singular simple present liberates, present participle liberating, simple past liberated, past participle liberated or (obsolete) liberate) (transitive) Often followed by from: to allow or cause (someone or something) to be free; to set free, to release. To free (someone or something) from discriminatory or oppressive attitudes, inhibition, or restraint. To release (someone) from slavery; to manumit. (sometimes ironic) To free (a place such as a country, or the residents thereof) from an occupying force, or from oppression such as unjust rule. (chemistry, physics) To cause (energy or a substance) to be released through a chemical reaction or physical decomposition. (originally military slang, euphemistic, informal) To take (property belonging to someone else) by force or theft; to loot, to rob, to steal. ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Synonyms ===== befree free ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== liberate Obsolete form of liberated (past participle of liberate). ==== Adjective ==== liberate (not comparable) (chiefly Scotland, obsolete) Freed, released; free. === Etymology 2 === From Late Middle English liberate (“warrant for payment of an allowance, debt, pension, etc.; warrant for delivery of property from a sheriff’s custody”, noun), from Law French liberate, from Anglo-Norman liberate, and from their etymon Late Latin liberate (“name of such a writ”), a noun use of Latin līberāte (“deliver”) (commonly the first word of such writs), the second-person plural present active imperative of līberō (“to free, liberate; to absolve, acquit; to release”): see further at etymology 1. Compare English allocate (“warrant for the payment of an allowance, debt, pension, etc.”). ==== Pronunciation ==== (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /lɪbəˈɹeɪti/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˌlɪbəˈɹeɪti/, [-ɾi] Rhymes: -eɪti Hyphenation: lib‧er‧a‧te ==== Noun ==== liberate (plural liberates) (law, historical) (UK) A writ issued out of the Chancery to authorize the Exchequer to pay a debt, pension, etc., on behalf of the Crown. (UK) A writ issued to a jailer to release a prisoner on bail. (UK, US) A writ issued to a sheriff to release property (goods or land) from their custody. ===== Derived terms ===== liberate day (“day on which liberates were issued”) liberate roll (“account kept of pensions and other allowances made under the Great Seal”) ===== Translations ===== === References === === Further reading === Liberation (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “liberate”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “liberate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. “liberat, p.p.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC. “liberate, v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC. === Anagrams === beertail, iterable, tierable == Italian == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /li.beˈra.te/ Rhymes: -ate Hyphenation: li‧be‧rà‧te === Verb === liberate inflection of liberare: second-person plural present indicative second-person plural imperative === Participle === liberate feminine plural of liberato === Anagrams === albereti, bilatere == Latin == === Verb === līberāte second-person plural present active imperative of līberō === Participle === līberāte vocative masculine singular of līberātus == Spanish == === Verb === liberate second-person singular voseo imperative of liberar combined with te