bibliotheca

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

• “bibliotheca”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Interlingua

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi.bli.oˈte.ka/

Noun

bibliotheca (plural bibliothecas)

1. library

Latin

Alternative forms

• bibliothēcē, bybliothēca, bybliothēcē

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /bi.bli.oˈtʰeː.ka/, [bɪblʲiɔˈt̪ʰeːkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /bi.bli.oˈte.ka/, [biblioˈt̪ɛːkä]

Noun

bibliothēca f (genitive bibliothēcae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	bibliothēca	bibliothēcae
Genitive	bibliothēcae	bibliothēcārum
Dative	bibliothēcae	bibliothēcīs
Accusative	bibliothēcam	bibliothēcās
Ablative	bibliothēcā	bibliothēcīs
Vocative	bibliothēca	bibliothēcae

Derived terms

• bibliothēcālis
• bibliothēcārius
• bibliothēcula

Descendants

• → Albanian: bibliotekë
• → Asturian: biblioteca
• → Catalan: biblioteca
• → English: bibliotheca
• → Galician: biblioteca
• → Italian: biblioteca
• → Middle French: bibliotheque
  • French: bibliothèque
    • → Belarusian: бібліятэ́ка (biblijatéka)
    • → Bulgarian: библиотека (biblioteka)
    • → Danish: bibliotek
    • → Dutch: bibliotheek
      • Afrikaans: biblioteek
      • → Indonesian: bibliotek
    • → German: Bibliothek
    • → Latvian: bibliotēka
    • → Lithuanian: biblioteka
    • → Lower Sorbian: biblioteka
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: bibliotek
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: bibliotek
    • → Polish: biblioteka
    • → Russian: библиоте́ка (bibliotéka)
    • → Serbo-Croatian: библиоте́ка (bibliotéka)
    • → Swedish: bibliotek
    • → Turkish: bibliyotek
    • → Ukrainian: бібліоте́ка (bibliotéka)
    • → Upper Sorbian: biblioteka
    • → Yiddish: ביבליאָטעק (biblyotek)
  • → English: bibliotheque
• → Norman: bibliothèque
• → Occitan: bibliotèca
• → Old Spanish:
  • Ladino: biblioteka
  • Spanish: biblioteca
    • → Tagalog: bibliyoteka
• → Portuguese: biblioteca
• → Romanian: bibliotecă

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^[1], 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^[2], 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 (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of biblioteca.