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 βῐβλῐοθήκη (bĭblĭothḗkē, “library”), from βῐβλῐ́ον (bĭblĭ́on) +‎ θήκη (thḗkē).

Pronunciation 1

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [bɪ.bli.ɔˈtʰeː.ka]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [bi.bli.oˈtɛː.ka]

Noun

bibliothēca f (genitive bibliothēcae); first declension

1. a library (room for books or collection of books)
   • 1472, Diodorus Siculus, translated by Poggio Bracciolini, Bibliothecae historiae libri VI:
   • 1575, Hieronymus Wolf, Catalogus Graecorum librorum manuscriptorum Augustanae bibliothecae:
   • 1814, Thomas Hartwell Horne, An Introduction to the Study of Bibliography, page 592:

     Catalogus librorum bibliothecae publicae, quae est in illustrium Frisiae ordinum academia Frankerana (secundum ordinem pluteorum dispositus).

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1975, Vito Joseph Brenni, Essays on Bibliography, page 101:

     Italy was not behind other countries in the publication of institutional library catalogues, as a Catalogus librorum bibliothecae.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1980, Rudolf Blum, Bibliographia: An Inquiry Into Its Definition and Designations, page 35:

     It was the earliest of the many Bibliothecae selectae, Bibliotheques choisies, etc. and was intended primarily as a guide for Catholic students.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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

• 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

Pronunciation 2

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [bɪ.bli.ɔˈtʰeː.kaː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [bi.bli.oˈtɛː.ka]

Noun

bibliothēcā

1. ablative singular of bibliothēca

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, 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 (16 July 2016 (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 (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of biblioteca