bibliotheca

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English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin bibliothēca, borrowed from Ancient Greek βιβλιοθήκη (bibliothḗkē, “library”). Equivalent to biblio- +‎ -theca. Doublet of bibliotheque.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌbɪbli.əˈθiːkə/

Noun

bibliotheca (plural bibliothecas or bibliothecae)

  1. (obsolete) A library.

References

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Etymology

From French bibliothèque, Italian bibliotèca, Spanish biblioteca, Portuguese biblioteca, German Bibliothek and Russian библиоте́ка (bibliotéka), all ultimately from Latin bibliothēca.

Pronunciation

Noun

bibliotheca (plural bibliothecas)

  1. library

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βιβλιοθήκη (bibliothḗkē, “library”), from βιβλίον (biblíon) +‎ θήκη (thḗkē).

Pronunciation

Noun

bibliothēca f (genitive bibliothēcae); first declension

  1. a library (room for books or collection of books)

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative bibliothēca bibliothēcae
genitive bibliothēcae bibliothēcārum
dative bibliothēcae bibliothēcīs
accusative bibliothēcam bibliothēcās
ablative bibliothēcā bibliothēcīs
vocative bibliothēca bibliothēcae

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • “bibliotheca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “bibliotheca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • bibliotheca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • bibliotheca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to bury oneself in one's library: se abdere in bibliothecam suam
  • “bibliotheca”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • bibliotheca in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  • “bibliotheca”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Noun

bibliotheca f (plural bibliothecas)

  1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of biblioteca.
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