Latin

Verb

lībō ‎(present infinitive lībāre, perfect active lībāvī, supine lībātum); first conjugation

1. I taste, sip
2. I sprinkle, consecrate, dedicate, make a libation
3. I spill
4. I graze

Inflection

Derived terms

• lībāmen
• lībāmentum
• lībātiō
• lībātor
• lībātōrium
• lībum

Descendants

• Spanish: libar
• Italian: libare

References

• libo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• libo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “libo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to offer libations: libare
    
  • (ambiguous) to speak frankly, independently: libere dicere (Verr. 2. 72. 176)
    
  • (ambiguous) the work when translated; translation (concrete): liber (scriptoris) conversus, translatus
    
  • (ambiguous) the book is entitled 'Laelius': liber inscribitur Laelius (Off. 2. 9. 30)
    
  • (ambiguous) there exists a book on..: est liber de...
    
  • (ambiguous) the book is still extant: exstat liber (notice the order of the words)
    
  • (ambiguous) the book has been lost: liber intercidit, periit
    
  • (ambiguous) a book which has been entirely lost sight of: liber deperditus
    
  • (ambiguous) a lost book of which fragments (relliquiae, not fragmenta) remain: liber perditus
    
  • (ambiguous) a book which is attributed to some one: liber qui fertur alicuius
    
  • (ambiguous) the book is attributed to an unknown writer: liber refertur ad nescio quem auctorem
    
  • (ambiguous) the book treats of friendship: hic liber est de amicitia (not agit) or hoc libro agitur de am.
    
  • (ambiguous) to be engaged on a book: liber mihi est in manibus
    
  • (ambiguous) the book, speech can easily be obtained: liber, oratio in manibus est
    
  • (ambiguous) a carefully written book: liber accurate, diligenter scriptus
    
  • (ambiguous) a very charming book: liber plenus delectationis
    
  • (ambiguous) the Republic: libera res publica, liber populus
    
  • (ambiguous) an independent spirit: a partibus rei publicae animus liber (Sall. Cat. 4. 2)
    
  • (ambiguous) with wife and child: cum uxoribus et liberis
    
• libo in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill

Spanish

Verb

libo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of libar.

Tagalog

Etymology

Compare Indonesian ribu, Malay ribu.

Numeral

libo

1. (cardinal) thousand