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verb

délivrer

/de.li.vʁe/

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verb/de.li.vʁe/

to set free; to deliver (a message); to deliver a child

Inherited from Late Latin dēlīberāre, dēlīberō (“to set free”) (unrelated to the Classical Latin dēlīberō (“to weigh, to ponder”), which was borrowed in French as délibérer). By surface analysis, dé- + livrer.