adjective/libʁ/
free, at liberty; clear, free, vacant; free, without obligation; freestyle
“Un homme libre” — a free man
Inherited from Middle French libre, from Old French libre, semi-learned form of livre (ca. 1200), from Latin līber (“free”), from Old Latin loeber, from Proto-Italic *louðeros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ-er-os, from *h₁lewdʰ- (“people”).