Etymology

libration

L1I1B3R1A1T1I1O1N1

Today it means: The act of librating. Full definition →

Latin lībrātiō
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Latin · derived fromlībrātiō“a hurling, swinging”
  2. English todaylibration

From Latin lībrātiō (“a hurling, swinging”), from lībrō (“poise, cause to swing”).

Words from the same roots

Latinlībrātiō all →

libratious

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.