Etymology

bibliothec

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Today it means: A library. Full definition →

Old English biblioþece ← Latin bibliothēca
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The story

  1. Latin · derived frombibliothēca“library”, “collection of books”
  2. Old English · inherited frombiblioþece
  3. English todaybibliothec

An Anglicisation either of bibliotheca (from the Old English biblioþece) or of its etymon, the Latin bibliothēca (“library”, “collection of books”); compare French bibliothèque.

Words from the same roots

Latinbibliothēca all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.