Translation
anyone, anything; whoever you please, any at all
Examples
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Any man at all can know this.
fac.
Do it in whatever way you please.
pervenire .
He could arrive by any road at all.
Quaelibet .
Every city has its own laws.
Cuilibet datus .
A book was given to each and every brother.
Quilibet, quaelibet, quodlibet, with quidlibet when it stands alone as a noun. Only the front half declines: cuiuslibet, cuilibet, quemlibet, quibuslibet. The -libet is the impersonal verb libet, "it pleases", frozen on the end, so the literal sense is "who you please" - any one you care to pick, chosen at random and with a shrug.
That shrug is the difference from its neighbours. Quisque is "each one" taken distributively; quisquam is "anyone at all" and lives in negatives and questions; quilibet is "any old one", and can carry a faint contempt. Scholastic disputation kept the neuter: a quodlibet was a session at which the audience could put any question they liked, and English still uses quodlibet for a piece of music that stitches together whatever tunes come to hand.
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