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“liberated” in Latin

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

liberated
participial adjective, liberatus; liber; solutus. (The words are found in this connection and order.) solutus ac liber. A liberated slave, manumissus, manumissa (that is no longer a slave); libertus, liberta (in respect of a former master); libertinus, libertina (in respect of condition: post-Augustan writers are not careful in distinguishing between libertus and libertinus, but this is not to be imitated). The condition of a liberated person, libertinitas (Jurisconsulti).

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What is the Latin word for liberated?
The usual Latin words for “liberated” are līberō, līber, solvō; also manūmittō, lībertus, lībertīnus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.