bibliotheca
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin bibliothēca, from Ancient Greek βιβλιοθήκη (bibliothḗkē, “library”). Equivalent to biblio- + -theca. Doublet of bibliotheque.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌbɪbli.əˈθiːkə/
Noun
bibliotheca (plural bibliothecas or bibliothecae)
- (obsolete) A library.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for bibliotheca in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Ancient Greek βιβλιοθήκη (bibliothḗkē, “library”), from βιβλίον (biblíon) + θήκη (thḗkē).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /bi.bli.oˈtʰeː.ka/, [bɪblʲiɔˈt̪ʰeːkä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /bi.bli.oˈte.ka/, [biblioˈt̪ɛːkä]
Noun
bibliothēca f (genitive bibliothēcae); first declension
- 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
Descendants
- → Albanian: bibliotekë
- → Asturian: biblioteca
- → Catalan: biblioteca
- → English: bibliotheca
- → French: bibliothèque
- → Belarusian: бібліятэ́ка (biblijatéka)
- → Bulgarian: библиотека (biblioteka)
- → Danish: bibliotek
- → Dutch: bibliotheek
- Afrikaans: biblioteek
- → Indonesian: bibliotek
- → English: bibliotheke
- → 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)
- → Galician: biblioteca
- → Italian: biblioteca
- → Norman: bibliothèque
- → Occitan: bibliotèca
- → Old Spanish:
- Ladino: biblioteka
- Spanish: biblioteca
- → 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to bury oneself in one's library: se abdere in bibliothecam suam
- 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 (accessed 16 July 2016) 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)
- Obsolete spelling of biblioteca (used in Portugal until September 1911 and in Brazil until the 1940s).