different between library vs biblioteca

English

Etymology

Middle English librarie, from Anglo-Norman librarie, from Old French librairie, from Latin librarium (“bookcase, chest for books”), from librarius (“concerning books”), from liber (“the inner bark of trees; paper, parchment, book”), probably derived from a Proto-Indo-European base *leub(?)- (“to strip, to peel”). Displaced native Middle English bochus, bochous (literally “book house”), from Old English b?ch?s.

Romance cognates often mean “bookshop” instead: French librairie, Italian libreria, Spanish librería and Portuguese livraria. This is a relatively recent innovation (16th century in French), which ended up displacing the earlier sense.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?la?b?i/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?la?b???i/
• (US)
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /?la??b???i/, /?la?b???i/
  • (non-standard) IPA^(key): /?la??b??i/

The non-RP UK pronunciation /?la?b?i/ (whence the eye dialect spelling libry) exhibits haplology.

Noun

library (plural libraries)

1. An institution which holds books and/or other forms of media for use by the public or qualified people often lending them out, as well as providing various other services for its users.

   Synonym: (nonstandard) bookhouse

   Coordinate terms: bookshop, bookstore

2. (by extension) Any institution that lends out its goods for use by the public or a community.
3. A collection of books or other forms of stored information.
4. An equivalent collection of analogous information in a non-printed form, e.g. record library.
5. A room dedicated to storing books.
6. (programming) A collection of software routines that provide functionality to be incorporated into or used by a computer program.

   Coordinate term: framework

   • 2014, John Paul Mueller, Jeff Cogswell, C++ All-in-One For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons (?ISBN), page 307:

     A static library is much like any other library in that it contains a bunch of code for your application to use.

7. (genetics) A collection of DNA material from a single organism or relative to a single disease.
8. (card games) The deck or draw pile.

Synonyms

• bibliotheca (obsolete)
• bibliotheke (obsolete)

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Hindustani:
  • Hindi: ????????? f (l?ibrer?)
  • Urdu: ????????? f (l?ibrer?)
• ? Japanese: ?????? (raiburar?)

Translations

Further reading

• library on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• library (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• biraryl

Aragonese

Etymology

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Noun

biblioteca f (plural bibliotecas)

1. library

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) , “biblioteca”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, ?ISBN

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin biblioth?ca, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (biblioth?k?, “library”).

Noun

biblioteca f (plural biblioteques)

1. library

Related terms

• bibliotecariu

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin biblioth?ca, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (biblioth?k?, “library”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /bi.bli.o?t?.k?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /bi.bli.u?t?.k?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /bi.bli.o?te.ka/

Noun

biblioteca f (plural biblioteques)

1. library

Related terms

• bibliotecari

Further reading

• “biblioteca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “biblioteca” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “biblioteca” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “biblioteca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin biblioth?ca, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (biblioth?k?, “library”).

Noun

biblioteca f (plural bibliotecas)

1. library

Related terms

• bibliotecario

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin biblioth?ca, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (biblioth?k?, “library”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi.bljo?t?.ka/
• Rhymes: -?ka

Noun

biblioteca f (plural biblioteche)

1. library
2. bookcase

Derived terms

• bibliotecario

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• bibliotheca (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin biblioth?ca, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (biblioth?k?, “library”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bi.?lju.?t?.k?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /bi.bljo.?t?.k?/, [b?.bl?ö.?t??.k?]
• Hyphenation: bi?bli?o?te?ca

Noun

biblioteca f (plural bibliotecas)

1. library

Related terms

• biblio-
• bibliotecário

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bib.li.o?te.ka]

Noun

biblioteca f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of bibliotec?

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin biblioth?ca, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (biblioth?k?, “library”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bibljo?teka/, [bi.??ljo?t?e.ka]

Noun

biblioteca f (plural bibliotecas)

1. library
2. bookcase

Derived terms

• ratón de biblioteca

Related terms

• bibliotecario

Further reading

• “biblioteca” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.