different between library vs bookroom

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

English

Etymology

book +? room

Noun

bookroom (plural bookrooms)

1. A room in which books are kept; a library.