libre
Pronunciation: /ˈliːbɹə/
The English word “libre” has 4 meanings listed here.
adjective
- 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
Etymology
The obsolete “unconstrained” sense is borrowed from French libre (“at liberty”; “free” as in “clear”, “vacant”, “without obligation”), from Latin līber (“free, unrestricted”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ- (“people”), whence obsolete English lede (“person(s)”), English leud, and German Leute. The software and the unenslaved senses are either borrowed from the above French, or from…
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