libertine
/ˈlɪb.ə.tiːn/ · noun
Meaning
- Someone freed from slavery in Ancient Rome; a freedman.
- One who is freethinking in religious matters.
- Someone (especially a man) who takes no notice of moral laws, especially those involving sexual propriety; someone loose in morals; a pleasure-seeker.
- Dissolute, licentious, profligate; loose in morals.
Etymology / origin
From Latin libertinus (“a freedman, prop. adj., of or belonging to the condition of a freedman”), from libertus (“a freedman”), from liber (“free”); see liberal, liberate.
- libertinus(Latin)→
- *h₁lewdʰ-(ine-pro)→
- libertine (English)
- Relations: root, uder
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