Liberto

Liberto
Family name
Meaning	Freedman
Region of origin	Italy
Language(s) of origin	Italian
Related names	Di Liberto, Di Liberti, Diliberto, Diliberti, Liberace, Liberaci, Liberato, Liberatori, Liberati, Liberti, Libertini, Libertino, Libertucci

Gender	Male
Language(s)	Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Word/name	Libertus
Meaning	Freedman
Region of origin	Europe (Italy, Spain, and Portugal) and Latin America
Variant form(s)	Libero
Derived	Libertino

Liberto is both a given name and a surname of Italian descent.

The term liberto derives from Greek: ἀπελεύθεροι, which means a freed slave. In ancient Greece, those freed slaves had various kinds of obligations toward their former owners and they did not have full citizens rights.

In ancient Rome they were called Latin: libertus, a freedman (feminine: liberta) or an emancipated person who acts for and on behalf of its former master, who became his patron (Latin: patronus). During the Empire period and after the judgment of a magistrate they were freed from a Latin: iusta servitus. Despite being freed by manumission and acquiring the Roman citizenship and a legal personality, they did not have the same legal rights of the free-born and were excluded from the main offices, maintaining a subordinate position and many obligations on behalf of their former masters, which can be summarized in three duties: Latin: obsequium (obedience; respecting the patron as a father), Latin: operae (work), and Latin: bona (honesty; masters maintain the right of inheritance). This status could be revoked by Latin: revocatio in servitutem propter ingratitudinem. During the late imperial period a liberto can achieve the full status of naive by Latin: natalium restitution.

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