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libet
libet
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈli.bet/
Verb
libet (present infinitive libēre, perfect active libuit); second conjugation, impersonal
Inflection
| Conjugation of libet (second conjugation, mostly impersonal, active only) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | — | libet | — | — | — |
| imperfect | — | — | libēbat | — | — | — | |
| future | — | — | libēbit | — | — | — | |
| perfect | — | — | libuit, libitum est | — | — | — | |
| pluperfect | — | — | libuerat, libitum erat | — | — | — | |
| future perfect | — | — | libuerit, libitum erit | — | — | — | |
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | — | libeat | — | — | — |
| imperfect | — | — | libēret | — | — | — | |
| perfect | — | — | libuerit, libitum sit | — | — | — | |
| pluperfect | — | — | libuisset, libitum esset | — | — | libuissent | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | libēre | libuisse, libitum esse | — | — | — | — | |
| participles | libēns | libitum | — | — | — | — | |
Alternative forms
Derived terms
Descendants
- English: quodlibet
Etymology 2
Inflected form of lībō (“taste, sip”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈliː.bet/
Verb
lībet
- third-person singular present active subjunctive of lībō
References
- libet in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- libet in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “libet”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.