free, at liberty · clear, free, vacant · free, without obligation
eş: franc, loisible
köken: Inherited from Middle French libre, from Old French libre, semi-learned form of livre (ca. 1200), from Latin līber (“free”), from Old Latin loeber, from Proto-Italic *louðeros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ-er-os, from *h₁lewdʰ- (“people”).
aile: à l'air libre, amour libre, association libre, champ libre, chute libre, discours indirect libre, donner libre cours, électron libre, libre arbitre, libre comme l'air
Un homme libre
L'Homme eſt né libre, & par-tout il eſt dans les fers.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Indo-European *h₁léwdʰeros Proto-Italic *louðeros Old Latin loeber Latin līberumlbor. Italian libero Learned borrowing from Latin līberum.
köken: From Proto-Turkic *boĺ (“empty; free”). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (boš, “empty; free”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (boš, “empty; free”), Turkish boş (“empty”).
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese livre, libre, from Latin līber, from Old Latin loeber, from Proto-Italic *louðeros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ-er-os, from *h₁lewdʰ- (“people”).
free (politically, socially, economically or juridically independent) · free (not in prison or captivity) · free (of, from) (having no obligations or duties, no worries)
çekim: karşılaştırma brīvāks · üstünlük visbrīvākais
eş: neatkarīgs, patstāvīgs
zıt: ciešs
köken: A borrowing from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German vri, vrie (compare German frei, Dutch vrij), from Proto-Germanic *frija- (“free, not a slave”). The sequence fr was changed to Latvian br. First mentioned in 17th-century dictionaries, brīvs was originally used in the context of German political and administrative power, and referred to more specific German legal concepts (a certain privilege or…
free, independent · free, unconstrained · loose, free, not strictly following the rules
çekim: karşılaştırma vabam · üstünlük kõige vabam
köken: From Proto-Finnic *vapada, from Old East Slavic свободь (svobodĭ, “free”), from Proto-Slavic *svoboda (“freedom”). Cognates include Finnish vapaa, Votic vapa and Ingrian vappaa.
köken: Inherited from Old Catalan liure, from Latin līber (“free”), from Old Latin loeber, from Proto-Italic *louðeros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ-er-os, from *h₁lewdʰ- (“people”). Compare Occitan liure.