Latin form of colibert; a medieval term for a person of intermediate social status or freed peasant in feudal France.
The Latinized version of Old French 'colibert,' used in medieval legal charters and documents. The Latin suffix '-us' indicates the noun form in formal medieval Latin documentation.
Medieval scribes used Latin even for vernacular social categories like colibertus, showing how Latin remained the 'official language' of law and administration long after it stopped being spoken conversationally!
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