bibliothèque
See also: bibliotheque
French
Etymology
From Middle French bibliotheque, borrowed from Latin bibliothēca (“library”), originally from Ancient Greek βιβλιοθήκη (bibliothḗkē, “book-room”). Morphologically biblio- + -thèque.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bi.bli.jɔ.tɛk/
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Noun
bibliothèque f (plural bibliothèques)
- library
- bookcase
Derived terms
- discothèque
- rat de bibliothèque
Related terms
- bibliothécaire m or f
Descendants
- → Belarusian: бібліятэ́ка (biblijatéka)
- → Bulgarian: библиотека (biblioteka)
- → Danish: bibliotek
- → Dutch: bibliotheek
- Afrikaans: biblioteek
- → Indonesian: bibliotek
- → English: bibliotheke
- → German: Bibliothek
- → Latvian: bibliotēka
- → Lithuanian: biblioteka
- → Lower Sorbian: biblioteka
- → Norwegian Bokmål: bibliotek
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: bibliotek
- → Polish: biblioteka
- → Russian: библиоте́ка (bibliotéka)
- → Serbo-Croatian: библиоте́ка (bibliotéka)
- → Swedish: bibliotek
- → Turkish: bibliyotek
- → Ukrainian: бібліоте́ка (bibliotéka)
- → Upper Sorbian: biblioteka
- → Yiddish: ביבליאָטעק (biblyotek)
See also
- librairie
Further reading
- “bibliothèque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin bibliothēca (“library”), from Ancient Greek βιβλιοθήκη (bibliothḗkē, “book-room”).
Noun
bibliothèque f (plural bibliothèques)
- (Jersey) library
- (Jersey) bookcase