liberator

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪbəɹeɪtə(ɹ)/

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liberator (plural liberators)

1. A person who frees or liberates.

• deliverer
• emancipator
• manumitter, manumittor

• enslaver
• oppressor

• liberate
• liberation
• liberty

• “liberator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “liberator”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

liberator (plural liberatores)

1. liberator

From līberō +‎ -tor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [liː.bɛˈraː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [li.beˈraː.t̪or]

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

Third-declension noun.

līberātor

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

• “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

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

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

1. liberating