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liber
Latin · ancient
"free"
free, not enslaved
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liberte
Old French · medieval
"the state of being free"
carried into French for the state of being free
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liberty
English · 1300s
"freedom from oppressive restriction or control"
settled as the English word for freedom from oppressive control
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