liber

See also: lîber, Liber, libër, li ber, and Liber.

English

Etymology

From Latin liber (“the inner bark of a tree; book”). See libel.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪbə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪbəɹ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

liber (countable and uncountable, plural libri or libers)

1. (botany) The inner bark of plants, next to the wood. It usually contains a large proportion of woody, fibrous cells, and is the part from which the fibre of the plant is obtained, as that of hemp, etc.

   Synonym: phloem

2. A book of public records.
   • 1857, Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, page 21:

     First. That they will make, compile, collate, prepare, correct and copy complete in every respect for printing two sets of original Index Books, one of grantors, and one of grantees, each of which shall contain the names of grantors and grantees respectively, together with the dates of the instruments, the time when recorded and the title and page where recorded of all instruments, deeds, leases or other writings recorded in the libers of conveyances in the said register’s office, at the date of this contract, in consideration of the sum of thirty-two dollars for each volume of conveyances so indexed.

   • 1891, Documents of the Senate of the State of New York, One Hundred and Fourteenth Session, 1891, volume IX, number 80, part V, Albany: James B. Lyon, page 123:

     The libers of wills above mentioned are estimated to contain 600 pages, which would make the average cost, per liber, $636.

   • 1919, Proceedings of the Board of Aldermen, page 21:

     […] the proceeds whereof to be used for the purpose of relabeling, rebinding and resewing libers in my office, all obligations to be incurred on or before December 31, 1918, which resolution was adopted by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment on August 9, 1918.

   • 1935, Annual Report of the Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia to the President of the United States, page 8:

     The libers containing this record have not been written in duplicate, but are contained in single consecutive liber form and are 2,865 in number. While there is a constant wear on these records, which necessitates untiring supervision, recopying, and repair, there were at the beginning of our project some 470 libers in an unserviceable condition, due to the deterioration of the parchment on which they are written, […].

   • (Can we date this quote?), Records & Briefs, page 382:

     You will also notice that on the last three full pages and page 37 which contains ten, there is not a single market or a single D recorded, the reason for that being that the libers which were included were agreed upon by Dr. Deming and myself, upon an examination of the libers in question in the County Clerk’s Office, and some instruments are dated within the period but recorded sometime later. The usual recording time we found to be anywhere from two to four or five days.

   • 1953, University of Iowa Studies: Series on Aims and Progress of Research, page 621:

     Among the records most useful for this study were the sixteen folio libers of Provincial Court Judgments pertaining to the period here covered, the Anne Arundel County Judgments, the Court Proceedings of Baltimore County, […].

   • 1999, Christina K. Schaefer, The Hidden Half of the Family: A Sourcebook for Women’s Genealogy, page 137:

     […] with references taken from county land and probate records, Maryland inventories, administration accounts, will books, patent libers, etc.;

Related terms

• libriform
• libro-

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “liber”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

See also

• liber amicorum

Anagrams

• Erbil, birle, libre

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɪbɛr]

Etymology 1

Noun

liber

1. genitive plural of libra

Etymology 2

Noun

liber

1. genitive plural of libero

French

Etymology

From Latin liber (“book; the inner bark of a tree”). Doublet of livre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.bɛʁ/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

Noun

liber m (plural libers)

1. bast (of a tree)
2. book

Related terms

• librairie
• libro-
• livro-

Further reading

• “liber”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• libre

Istro-Romanian

Alternative forms

• libâr

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /liber/

Noun

liber m (plural libri)

1. book