bibliotheca
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- noun
- /ˌbɪbliˈoʊθɪkə/
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biblioteca
- The university's new bibliotheca features rare books and manuscripts from around the world.
- Bibliotheca of Photius
- Bibliotheca Historica
Examples
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Bibliotheca Historica 3. Helsinki: Suomen Historiallinen Seura, 1995.
Academic text (1997) -
For more on Photius, see Warren Treadgold, The Nature of the Bibliotheca of Photius (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1980). #31 Photius, Bibliotheca, codex 40.
Academic text (2018) -
But nearly 2,000 years later, in 2002, the new Bibliotheca Alexandrina opened as an homage to the original.
Blog text (7) -
Photius summarized the History twice: once briefly in his entry on Philostorgius in the Bibliotheca, a massive work summarizing and reviewing over two hundred works.
Academic text (2018) -
Fazlur Rahman, Major Themes of the Qur'an (Chicago: Bibliotheca Islamica, 1980), p. 164.
Academic text (2014) -
(Lucius Ferraris, Prompta Bibliotheca (Rome, 1890), Vol. VI, p. 43, col. 2.)
Blog text (30) -
Osler's historical library, the collection of 7,600 volumes, Bibliotheca Osleriana, was bequeathed to McGill University, where it became the Osler Library of the History of Medicine.
Academic text (2003) -
For more on Photius, see Warren Treadgold, The Nature of the Bibliotheca of Photius (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1980). #31 Photius, Bibliotheca, codex 40.
Academic text (2018) -
When, in 1975, he established the Fondation Bibliotheca Afghanica, an Afghan library and research institute near Basel, he stocked its shelves with guidebooks, catalogs, and reports from foreign teams excavating in the country.
Academic text (2002) -
As an esteemed writer, he donated his personal bibliotheca to promote literacy in the community.
Synonyms
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A collection of books kept for people to borrow or study
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Surface Forms
Morphology
bibliotheca = biblio + theca
A learned compound from Greek combining forms ('biblio-' + '-theca'); these elements are not standalone English words for most learners, so the meaning 'library' is not reliably inferable from the parts.
Etymology
Bibliotheca comes from Greek parts biblion 'book' and thēkē 'box' or 'case'. So it literally means a 'box of books', like a bookcase, and that is why bibliotheca refers to a collection or library of books.