libre

Etymology
Sense 1 (“especially of the will: free, independent”) is borrowed from, from , ultimately from.

Senses 2 (“(software) with very few limitations on distribution or improvement”) and 3 ("not enslaved") are either borrowed from the French word or the, from the same Latin as above.

Pronunciation

 * Sense 1:
 * Sense 2:
 * Sense 2:
 * Sense 2:
 * Sense 2:
 * Sense 2:

Adjective

 * 1)  Especially of the will: free, independent, unconstrained.
 * 2)  With very few limitations on distribution or the right to access the source code to create improved versions, but not necessarily free of charge.
 * 3)  Not enslaved.
 * 1)  Not enslaved.
 * 1)  Not enslaved.
 * 1)  Not enslaved.
 * 1)  Not enslaved.
 * 1)  Not enslaved.

Usage notes
Sense 2 (“(software) with very few limitations on distribution or improvement”) is chiefly used to distinguish such software (also called free software) from freeware, which is distributed free of charge or gratis (the two are not mutually exclusive).

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Asturian: llibre
 * Basque:
 * Bavarian: freie
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish: saor
 * Italian:
 * Korean:
 * Latvian: brīvā
 * Malay:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: fri
 * Occitan:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: сло̏бодан
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: slobodný
 * Slovene: prosto
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: malayang
 * Turkish:

Noun

 * 1)  A free (not enslaved) black person in a French- or Spanish-colonized area, especially New Orleans.

Etymology
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Adjective

 * 1) gratis; free of charge; for free
 * 2) free; unconstrained

Adverb

 * 1) gratis; free of charge; for free

Etymology
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Adjective

 * 1) without charge; free, gratis
 * 2) not married; single
 * 3) at liberty
 * 4) without burden

Verb

 * 1) to treat, to provide someone with (food, drink, or entertainment) at one's own expense
 * 2) to pay for another person's purchase

Etymology
, from, semi-learned form of (ca. 1200), from , from , from , from , from.

Adjective

 * 1) free, at liberty
 * 2) clear, free, vacant
 * 3) free, without obligation
 * 4)  freestyle
 * 1) free, without obligation
 * 2)  freestyle
 * 1)  freestyle

Etymology 1
From, (13th century, ), from.

Adjective

 * 1) free, not captive, unbound
 * 2) void; exempt

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Adjective

 * 1) free; without charge; gratis

Etymology 1
From, from.

Adjective

 * 1) free; at liberty

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) scales

Etymology
From, borrowed from.

Adjective

 * 1)  free

Etymology
From, borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) book

Noun

 * 1) book

Etymology
.

Adjective

 * 1) free; at liberty

Etymology
. Gallo-Romance cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) book

Etymology 1
Probably, from , from , from , from.

Adjective

 * 1) free
 * 2) free
 * 3) free
 * 4)  free
 * 5) free

Etymology
. Displaced older, also borrowed from Spanish.

Adjective

 * 1) free; free of charge; gratis
 * 2) free of responsibility
 * 3) safe
 * 4) vacant; not working
 * 5)  open
 * 1) vacant; not working
 * 2)  open
 * 1)  open

Noun

 * 1)  treat