librate

From Medieval Latin lībrāta, from Latin lībra (“pound”).

librate (plural librates)

1. (now historical) A piece of land having a value of one pound per year.

A librating molecule.

From the participle stem of Latin lībrāre, from lībra (“a balance”).

librate (third-person singular simple present librates, present participle librating, simple past and past participle librated)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To place in a balance; to weigh.
2. (intransitive) To oscillate (like the beam of a balance).
   • 1796, William Cliffton, The Group:

     Their parts all librate on too nice a beam.

3. (intransitive) To be poised; to balance oneself.
   • 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, p. 138:

     Her playful Sea-horse […] His watery way with waving volutes wins, / Or listening librates on unmoving fins.

• libration

• OED 2nd edition 1989

• altbier, betrail, tablier, triable, trilabe

librate

1. inflection of librarsi:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

librate f pl

1. feminine plural of librato

• blateri, libertà, retabli, ribalte, tribale

lībrāte

1. vocative masculine singular of lībrātus

• “librate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press