free-born (adj.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict[free-born 词源字典]
"inheriting liberty," mid-14c., from free (adj.) + born. Old English had freolic (adj.) "free, free-born; glorious, magnificent, noble; beautiful, charming," which became Middle English freli, "a stock epithet of compliment," but which died out, perhaps as the form merged with that of freely (adv.).[free-born etymology, free-born origin, 英语词源]