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[Basil Chupin]

On 01/10/2010 14:24, Jan Claeys wrote:
> Op vrijdag 01-10-2010 om 13:24 uur [tijdzone +1000], schreef Basil
> Chupin:
>    
>> On 01/10/2010 03:48, Martin Webster wrote:
>>      
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 18:00 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>>        
>>>>>      >  Sounds Spanish????
>>>>>
>>>>>      LibreOffice sounds French to me.
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>> I have a printing plate which prints "Ex Libris" to be pasted into
>>>> the books which I own.
>>>>
>>>> "Ex Libris" comes from Latin - "from the books or library...".
>>>>
>>>> "Canta Libre" means "Song book" or "Book of Songs" but the base
>>>>          
>> word
>>      
>>>> is from Latin.
>>>>          
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_Libre
>>>        
>> The Desk Standard Dictionary of the English Language, Foreign Words
>> Phrases, etc., -
>>
>>
>> ex libris.  [L.]  From [among] the books [of]: an inscription in a
>> book followed by the author's name.
>>      
> http://la.wiktionary.org/wiki/liber
>
> Basically, as an adjective it means "free", as a substantive it means
> "book" (there are also 2 other meanings, but they aren't really related
> to this discussion, and are pronounced differently anyway).
>
> (And I think it's used as an adjective here, but you can ask The
> Document Foundation to be sure...)
>    

 From the "authority" of this current, Latin deprived, world:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_libris

BC

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