Etymology

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Today it means: A section of a written work containing citations, not quotations, to all the books referred to in the work. Full definition →

Ancient Greek βιβλιογραφία
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  1. Ancient Greek · borrowed fromβιβλιογραφία“the act or habit of writing books”
  2. English todaybibliography

From Ancient Greek βιβλιογραφία (bibliographía, “the act or habit of writing books”), from βιβλιογράφος (bibliográphos, “a writer of books”), from βιβλίον (biblíon, “small book”) + γράφω (gráphō, “I write”).

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