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libum.

cake/pancake; consecrated cake (to gods on 50 birthday); liquid/drink offering;

5 characters2 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈliː.bũː]Classical-Latin[ˈliː.bum]
  1. a cake or pancake, made of meal and milk or oil and spread with honey, such as was offered to the gods, especially on a birthday

    declension-2
    lībum nātāle
Where this word comes from

Disputed. * According to De Vaan, from either Proto-Italic *leiβom or *loiβom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leybʰ-o-m or *h₂loybʰ-o-m respectively, from *h₂leybʰ- (“(anointing) grease”). If this theory were accepted, then the term would be cognate with Ancient Greek ἀλείφω (aleíphō, “to anoint”), ἄλειφᾰρ (áleiphăr, “unguent”). * The linguist Roman Garnier alternatively suggests that it is deverbal from lībō.

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