The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromτάφος“burial, tomb”
- French · derived frombibliotaphe
- English todaybibliotaph
From French bibliotaphe, from biblio- + Ancient Greek τάφος (táphos, “burial, tomb”). By surface analysis biblio- + -taph.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekτάφος all →
taphonomytaphophiliatafone-taphtapho-taphoflorataphophiletaphophobetaphophobiataphophobicTaphos
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.