liberate
Freed, released; freeFreed, released; free.
» We must liberate them.
Wir müssen sie befreien.
Мы должны их освободить.
Ми маємо звільнити їх.
Ми маємо їх звільнити.
Meaning
1 senses(Scotland, not comparable, obsolete)Freed, released; free.
Examples
45 sentencesWe must liberate them.
Ми маємо звільнити їх. — deniko
ruМы должны их освободить. — marafon
deWir müssen sie befreien. — raggione
Tom liberated us.
Том нас звільнив. — deniko
ruТом нас освободил. — marafon
He liberated the people from bondage.
deEr befreite das Volk von seinen Ketten. — MUIRIEL
All the children will be liberated.
Algerians liberated their country from France.
Origin
Learned borrowing from Latin līberātus (“freed, liberated; absolved, acquitted; released”)Learned borrowing from Latin līberātus (“freed, liberated; absolved, acquitted; released”); see English -ate (suffix forming verbs, and used as the ending of participial adjectives and obsolete past participles from Latin). Līberātus is the perfect passive participle of līberō (“to free, liberate; to absolve, acquit; to release”), from līber (“free, unrestricted”), + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs); and līberō is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁léwdʰeros (“free”), from *h₁lewdʰ- (“to grow; people”) + *-teros (contrastive or oppositional adjectival suffix) (*h₁léwdʰeros possibly originally meant ‘belonging to one’s own people’, excluding slaves who were captured from other groups of people, and thus later came to mean “free (not enslaved)”). Not related to deliberate.
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