liberator

See also: Liberator

English

Etymology

From Latin līberātor (“one who sets free”), from līberāre, past participle līberātus (“to set free”); see liberate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪbəɹeɪtə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

liberator (plural liberators)

1. A person who frees or liberates.

Synonyms

• deliverer
• emancipator
• manumitter, manumittor

Antonyms

• enslaver
• oppressor

Related terms

• liberate
• liberation
• liberty

Translations

person who frees or liberates

• Arabic: مُحَرِّر (muḥarrir), مُعْتِق (muʕtiq)
• Catalan: alliberador m, alliberadora f
• Czech: osvoboditel m, osvoboditelka f
• Danish: befrier c
• Esperanto: liberiganto
• Finnish: vapauttaja (fi), liberaattori
• German: Befreier (de) m, Befreierin (de) f, Erlöser (de) m, Erlöserin (de) f
• Hindi: मसीहा (hi) m (masīhā)
• Hungarian: felszabadító (hu)
• Ido: liberiganto (io), liberigero (io)
• Latin: līberātor m, līberātrīx f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: befrier m

  Nynorsk: befriar m

• Polish: oswobodziciel (pl) m, oswobodzicielka f, wyzwoliciel (pl) mwyzwolicielka f
• Portuguese: libertador (pt) m, libertadora f
• Punjabi: ਬੰਦੀ ਛੋੜ (bandī choṛ), ਮਸੀਹਾ (masīhā)
• Russian: освободитель (ru) m (osvoboditelʹ), освободи́тельница (ru) f (osvobodítelʹnica)
• Spanish: libertador (es) m, libertadora (es) f
• Swahili: mkombozi (sw)
• Swedish: befriare (sv) c
• Ukrainian: визволи́тель m (vyzvolýtelʹ)
• Volapük: libükan (vo), hilibükan (male), jilibükan (vo) (female)
• Yiddish: באַפֿרײַער m (bafrayer)

Further reading

• “liberator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “liberator”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Interlingua

Noun

liberator (plural liberatores)

1. liberator

Latin

Etymology

From līberō +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /liː.beˈraː.tor/, [lʲiːbɛˈräːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /li.beˈra.tor/, [libeˈräːt̪or]

Noun

līberātor m (genitive līberātōris, feminine līberātrīx); third declension

1. liberator, deliverer.
2. (historical) a member of the conspirators who participated in the plotted assassination of Julius Caesar, led by Gaius Cassius Longinus and Marcus Junius Brutus

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	līberātor	līberātōrēs
Genitive	līberātōris	līberātōrum
Dative	līberātōrī	līberātōribus
Accusative	līberātōrem	līberātōrēs
Ablative	līberātōre	līberātōribus
Vocative	līberātor	līberātōrēs

Related terms

• līber
• līberālis
• līberālitās
• līberāliter
• līberātiō
• līberē
• līberī
• libērta
• lībērtās
• lībērtīnus
• lībērtō
• lībērtus

 

Descendants

• Inherited:
  • French: livreur
  • Portuguese: livrador
  • Spanish: librador
• Borrowed:
  • → English: liberator
  • → French: libérateur
  • → Italian: liberatore
  • → Portuguese: liberador
  • → Romanian: liberator
  • → Sicilian: libbiraturi
  • → Spanish: liberador

Verb

līberātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of līberō

References

• “liberator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “liberator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• liberator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “liberator”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French libérateur, from Latin liberator. Equivalent to libera +‎ -tor.

Adjective

liberator m or n (feminine singular liberatoare, masculine plural liberatori, feminine and neuter plural liberatoare)

1. liberating

Declension

Declension of liberator

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	liberator		liberatoare	liberatori	liberatoare
	definite	liberatorul		liberatoarea	liberatorii	liberatoarele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	liberator		liberatoare	liberatori	liberatoare
	definite	liberatorului		liberatoarei	liberatorilor	liberatoarelor