SUPREME WORD DU JOUR LIBERTINE

SUPREME WORD DU JOUR

LIBERTINE

PRONUNCIATION:

(LIB-uhr-teen)

MEANING:

noun: A person who is morally unrestrained.
adjective: Unrestrained by conventions or morality..

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin libertinus (freedman), from liber (free). Ultimately from the Indo-European root leudh- (to mount up or grow), which also gave us liberty, livery, and deliver. Earliest documented use: 1384.

USAGE:

Revolving around the salacious adventures of the Spanish nobleman and libertine of the same name, the opera [Don Giovanni] is the second of a trilogy Mozart wrote with Italian librettist Lorenzo da Ponte.”
Calendar; The Korea Herald (Seoul); Feb 28, 2014.

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