# bibliotheca
## English
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin bibliothēca, borrowed from Ancient Greek βιβλιοθήκη (bibliothḗkē, “library”). Equivalent to biblio- +‎ -theca. Doublet of bibliotheque.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌbɪbli.əˈθiːkə/

### Noun

bibliotheca (plural bibliothecas or bibliothecae)
* (obsolete) A library.

### References

* “bibliotheca”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

## Interlingua
### Etymology

From French bibliothèque, Italian bibliotèca, Spanish biblioteca, Portuguese biblioteca, German Bibliothek and Russian библиоте́ка (bibliotéka), all ultimately from Latin bibliothēca.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bi.bli.oˈte.ka/

### Noun

bibliotheca (plural bibliothecas)
* library

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* bibliothēcē, bybliothēca, bybliothēcē

### Etymology

From Ancient Greek βιβλιοθήκη (bibliothḗkē, “library”), from βιβλίον (biblíon) +‎ θήκη (thḗkē).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /bi.bli.oˈtʰeː.ka/, [bɪblʲiɔˈt̪ʰeːkä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /bi.bli.oˈte.ka/, [biblioˈt̪ɛːkä]

### Noun

bibliothēca f (genitive bibliothēcae); first declension
* a library (room for books or collection of books)

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* bibliothēcālis
* bibliothēcārius
* bibliothēcula

#### Descendants

* → Albanian: bibliotekë
* → Asturian: biblioteca
* → Catalan: biblioteca
* → English: bibliotheca
* → Galician: biblioteca
* → Italian: biblioteca
* → Middle French: bibliotheque
** French: bibliothèque
*** → Belarusian: бібліятэ́ка (biblijatéka)
*** → Bulgarian: библиотека (biblioteka)
*** → Danish: bibliotek
*** → Dutch: bibliotheek
**** Afrikaans: biblioteek
**** → Indonesian: bibliotek
*** → 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)
** → English: bibliotheque
* → Norman: bibliothèque
* → Occitan: bibliotèca
* → Old Spanish:
** Ladino: biblioteka
** Spanish: biblioteca
*** → Tagalog: bibliyoteka
* → Portuguese: biblioteca
* → Romanian: bibliotecă

### References

* “bibliotheca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “bibliotheca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "bibliotheca", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* bibliotheca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to bury oneself in one's library: se abdere in bibliothecam suam
* “bibliotheca”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* bibliotheca in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
* “bibliotheca”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

## Portuguese
### Noun

bibliotheca f (plural bibliothecas)
* Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of biblioteca.