“freedom” in Latin

libertas (explained by Cic., Parad., 5, 1, 34, potestas vivendi, ut velis, as well of a single individual as of a state; in the latter meaning it is also libertas communis). Cherishing or loving freedom, libertatis amans, libertatis amore incensum esse (stronger term): to procure the freedom of [Vid: To FREE]. To obtain one’s freedom, libertatem accipere: to recover it, libertatem recuperare: to lose one’s freedom, libertatem perdere, amittere: to deprive anybody of his freedom, libertatem alicui eripere: to enjoy freedom, libertatem habere; in libertate esse; liberum et sui juris esse: the love of freedom, libertatis amor: a lover of freedom, libertatis amans: to be a lover of freedom, libertati studere: to be a devoted or ardent lover of freedom, libertatis amore incensum esse or ardere: this is a land of freedom, hic omnibus est aequa libertas (Ter., Ad., 2, 1, 29).

Moral liberty, i. e., liberty of the will, arbitrium: arbitrium liberum (the free will to do or act as one likes): potestas (as conceded, either by the law of nature, civil law, or by the will of an individual; mostly with genitive of the word in which that freedom consists): optio (free choice; Vid: LIBERTY). To bestow freedom of choice upon anybody, liberum arbitrium, potestatem, optionem alicui dare or facere: to take away anybody’s freedom (in any matter), alicui adimere potestatem alicujus rei: (he maintained) that there should be in a free state freedom of thinking and speaking, in civitate libera linguam mentemque liberas esse debere (Suet., Tiberius, 28). To use great freedom of speech, est in aliquo summa libertas in oratione: to attack anybody with great freedom of speech, multa cum libertate notare aliquem (†); vocis libertate perstringere aliquem: with too much freedom, libertate intemperantius invehi in aliquem.

The freedom of a town (i. e., the right of participating in its franchises), civitas: civitatula (of a small town, Sen., Apol., p. 852): jus civitatis (the right of acquiring the freedom, or entering into the rights of a citizen; Vid: Cic., Caecin., 34, 98; 35, 102; Cic., Arch., 5, 11, etc.). To give anybody the freedom of the city, civitatem alicui dare, impertiri, tribuere; civitatem alicui donare; diploma civitatis alicui offerre (Suet., Ner., 12); aliquem in civitatem accipere or recipere; aliquem inscribere civitati or in civitatem; aliquem in civitatem or in numerum civium asciscere (to receive among the numbers of citizens); civem aliquem facere: to receive the freedom of the city, consequi civitatem; recipi in civitatem; civitate donari; civitati alicui ascribi; in civitatem pervenire: to lose it, civitatem perdere, amittere.

Freedom of the press, *libertas sentiendi, quae velis, et quae sentias, litterarum formis exscribendi. The freedom of the press is established or exists in a state, *in civitate sentire, quae velis, et quae sentias, litterarum formis exscribere licet (both after Tac., Hist., 1, 1, 4) :