libre
Meanings
Plural: libres
Adj
- Especially of the will: free, independent, unconstrained.
- With very few limitations on distribution or the right to access the source code to create improved versions, but not necessarily free of charge.
- Not enslaved (of a black person in a French- or Spanish-colonized area, especially New Orleans).
Noun
- A free (not enslaved) black person in a French- or Spanish-colonized area, especially New Orleans.
Origin / Etymology
Sense 1 (“especially of the will: free, independent”) is borrowed from French libre (“at liberty, free; clear, free, vacant; free, without obligation”), from Latin līber (“free, unrestricted”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ- (“people”).
Senses 2 (“(software) with very few limitations on distribution or improvement”) and 3 ("not enslaved") are either borrowed from the French word or the Spanish libre (“free: not enslaved or imprisoned; without obligation; unconstrained by distrust or timidity; not containing, without”), from the same Latin etymon as above.
Synonyms
free, free as in freedom, free as in speech
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