English
libellize
From libel + -ize.
Formed from libel + -ize
Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- ‘to peel, cut off, harm’
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Latin liber ‘book’
Latin libellus ‘petition’
Old French libelle
Middle English libel ‘a litigant's statement of complaint, or list…’
English libel
Today it means
verb To libel.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / libellize