libelle

Borrowed from French libelle. Doublet of libel.

libelle (plural libelles)

1. (chiefly historical) A pamphlet or book that slanders a public political figure.
   • 2020, Collin Foss, The Culture of War - Literature of the Siege of Paris 1870-1871, →ISBN, page 193:

     What sort of political work was the libelle of 1870 doing? The people already knew that Napoléon III was not infallible, since he had just been captured.

Borrowed from Latin libella.

• IPA^(key): /ˌliˈbɛ.lə/

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• Hyphenation: li‧bel‧le
• Rhymes: -ɛlə

libelle f (plural libellen or libelles, diminutive libelletje n)

1. alternative form of libel

From Latin libellus, diminutive of liber (“book”).

• IPA^(key): /li.bɛl/

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• Homophones: libellent, libelles

libelle m (plural libelles)

1. libel
2. libelle

libelle

1. inflection of libeller:
   1. first-person singular/third-person singular present indicative/ present subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “libelle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

libelle m

1. vocative singular of libellus