felibre

noun

fe·​li·​bre

fāˈlēbrə,

-rᵊ

plural felibres

-rəz,

-rᵊ

often capitalized

: a member or supporter of the Felibrige, a literary association of Provençal writers founded near Avignon in 1854 especially for the maintenance and purification of Provençal as a literary language

Word History

Etymology

French félibre, from Provençal felibre felibre, any one of the learned men with whom Jesus at the age of twelve disputed in the Temple (Luke 2:46), perhaps from Late Latin fellebris being not yet weaned, from Latin fellare, felare to suck

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