lib

English Online Dictionary. What means lib‎? What does lib mean?

Translingual

Symbol

lib

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Likum.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Likum terms

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪb/
• Rhymes: -ɪb

Etymology 1

Abbreviation for various words beginning in lib-.

Noun

lib (countable and uncountable, plural libs)

1. (politics) liberal

2. liberation

3. library
4. libertarian

Further reading

• lib on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle English libbe, from Old English lybb, lyb (“medicine, drug, potion, poison, charm”), from Proto-West Germanic *lubi, from Proto-Germanic *lubją (“wort, herb, drug, poison”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-, *lewb- (“to peel, break, damage”), from Proto-Indo-European *lew- (“to cut, remove, prune, separate”). Cognate with German Luppe, Lüppe (“salve, ointment, plant juice, medicine, magic”), Icelandic lyf (“medicine, drug”).

Noun

lib (plural libs)

1. (UK dialectal, Scotland) A potion; magic potion; charm; concoction.

Etymology 3

From Middle English *libben (suggested by libbyng (“gelding”), lybbere (“gelder”)), related to Dutch lubben (“to castrate, emasculate”), Dutch libbe (“a steer”), lubbert (“a eunuch”). Further relation uncertain. Possibly related to Old English *lybban (“to doctor”), from Proto-West Germanic *lubbjan; or perhaps related to Old English lappa, læppa (“lappet, piece, section, lobe, portion, district”). More at lop.

Verb

lib (third-person singular simple present libs, present participle libbing, simple past and past participle libbed)

1. (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To geld; castrate; emasculate (usually said of animals).

Related terms

• glib
• libbert
• libbet

Anagrams

• BLI, bil

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɪp]
• Rhymes: -ɪp

Verb

lib

1. second-person singular imperative of líbit

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French libre (“free”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lib/

Adjective

lib

1. free
2. unoccupied
3. loose (in morals)

Related terms

• libète

References

• Targète, Jean and Urciolo, Raphael G. Haitian Creole-English dictionary (1993; →ISBN)

Irish

Pronoun

lib

1. Galway form of libh

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *līb.

Noun

līb m or n

1. life
2. livelihood
3. body
4. monastic life

Declension

Masculine declension:

Neuter declension:

Derived terms

• guotwerklib

Descendants

• Middle High German: līp, līph, līf, līb
  • Alemannic German: Liib
  • Central Franconian: Liev, Leiv

    Hunsrik: Leib

    Luxembourgish: Läif, Leif

  • Cimbrian: laip
  • German: Leib
  • Vilamovian: łaowa
  • Yiddish: לײַב (layb)

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [lʲiβʲ]

Pronoun

lib

1. second-person plural of la

Quotations

• c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 13^b12

• c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 14^a8

Descendants

• Irish: libh
• Manx: lhiu
• Scottish Gaelic: leibh

Volapük

Noun

lib (nominative plural libs)

1. freedom

Declension